Illness (Hansard, 30 January 2002)

§ Ruth Kelly

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002: As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the number of people with a limiting long standing illness or disability by region expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) the total number, ranked in descending order according to percentage figures for the latest year for which figures are available. (30581) The information requested is shown in the attached table.

Persons who reported limiting long standing illness by Government Office Region (a) percentages (b) numbers ranked in descending order
Great Britain: 2000
Government office Region/County	(a) Percentage reporting limiting long standing illness	(b) Number reporting limiting long standing illness (000s)	Weighted base (000s)=100% (total number of people in each region)
North East	23	652	2,783
Merseyside	23	314	1,342
Yorkshire and the Humber	21	1,072	5,113
South West	21	1,022	4,925
Wales	20	584	2,908
North West	20	1,119	5,688
Scotland	19	971	4,999
East Midlands	18	664	3,754
West Midlands	17	891	5,161
East of England	17	858	5,129
London	16	1,143	7,121
South East	16	1,253	7,943
All England	18	8,987	48,960
Great Britain	19	10,542	56,866

Notes:

Published data from the General Household Survey (Table 7.10 Living in Britain 2000).

Weighted bases shown here differ slightly from the published table because the published table includes two other measures of self-reported sickness. Bases for each measure differ because of the varying number of "no answers" to each measure. In these instances, the smallest base only is shown.

Percentages are based on data weighted to compensate for differential non response. The weighted figures give a grossed up population estimate.

Figures for Scotland and Wales are included in the ranked list, an overall figure for England is given separately.