Incompleteness of ethnicity data across government office regions
| Percentage (%) incompleteness and rank (R)* across government office regions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | NE | NW | Y&H | EM | WM | EE | L | SE | SW | Quotient† | |
| EE, East of England; EM, East Midlands; HES, hospital episode statistics; L, London; NA, not applicable; NE, North East; NDTMS, National Drug Treatment Monitoring System; NW, North West; PLASC, Pupil Level Annual School Census; SE, South East; SOPHID, Survey of Prevalent HIV Infections Diagnosed; SW, South West; TB, tuberculosis; WM, West Midlands; Y&H, Yorkshire & The Humber. | |||||||||||
| *Rankings: 9, worst on data completeness; 1,best. | |||||||||||
| †High–low rate ratio based on percentages. | |||||||||||
| PLASC data, 2004 | |||||||||||
| Primary schools | 2.3 | 3.0 (8) | 1.7 (5) | 1.4 (2) | 1.3 (1) | 1.5 (3) | 2.8 (6) | 1.6 (4) | 4.4 (9) | 2.9 (7) | 3.4 |
| Secondary schools | 3.4 | 4.3 (7) | 2.3 (4) | 1.6 (1) | 2.0 (2) | 2.2 (3) | 4.2 (6) | 2.5 (5) | 6.1 (9) | 4.8 (8) | 3.8 |
| Educational attainment/PLASC 2003 | 5.7 | 6.1 (6) | 4.5 (4) | 2.9 (1) | 4.7 (5) | 3.8 (2) | 6.7 (7) | 3.9 (3) | 9.7 (9) | 8.1 (8) | 3.3 |
| Children in need, 2003 | |||||||||||
| Children looked after | 1.0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Children supported in families or independently | 11.0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| All children in need | 8.0 | 5.0 (1) | 10.0 (8) | 6.0 (4) | 6.0 (4) | 9.0 (7) | 15.0 (9) | 8.0 (6) | 6.0 (4) | 8.0 (6) | 3.0 |
| Enhanced TB surveillance, 2000–2 | 6.6 | 1.8 (4) | 1.2 (1) | 2.7 (5) | 43.4 (9) | 1.3 (2) | 3.0 (6) | 5.0 (8) | 3.8 (7) | 1.5 (3) | 36.2 |
| AIDS/HIV: SOPHID data, 2003 | 3.0 | 3.3 (8) | 1.8 (6) | 0.7 (3) | 0.7 (3) | 1.2 (4) | 1.6 (5) | 4.0 (9) | 2.4 (7) | 0.5 (1) | 5.8 |
| Drug misuse: NDTMS data | 15.6 | 15.3 (6) | 11.3 (4) | 17.1 (5) | 3.3 (2) | 2.2 (1) | 25.9 (8) | 9.5 (3) | 30.2 (9) | 22.9 (7) | 15.6 |
| Social services workforce, 2004 | 8.9 | 3.1 (1) | 10.6 (7) | 4.8 (3) | 4.8 (3) | 5.4 (4) | 18.1 (9) | 7.1 (5) | 14.4 (8) | 9.6 (6) | 5.8 |
| Non-medical workforce, 2004 | 11.7 | 8.6 (4) | 7.8 (3) | 6.9 (1) | 7.3 (2) | 10.7 (6) | 17.7 (9) | 16.8 (8) | 15.8 (7) | 9.0 (5) | 2.6 |
| Medical and dental workforce, 2004 | 2.0 | 1.1 (1) | 1.4 (3) | 1.6 (4) | 1.1 (1) | 2.0 (6) | 3.0 (9) | 1.9 (5) | 2.6 (8) | 2.5 (7) | 2.7 |
| HES, 2003/4 | 36.0 | 19.0 (1) | 33.0 (4) | 45.0 (8) | 30.0 (3) | 25.0 (2) | 42.0 (7) | 34.0 (5) | 47.0 (9) | 42.0 (7) | 2.5 |
| Smoking cessation | 4.0 | 2.0 (3) | 4.0 (6) | 2.0 (3) | 7.0 (8) | 2.0 (3) | 4.0 (6) | 10.0 (9) | 7.0 (8) | 3.0 (4) | 5.0 |
| Summation of percentages and ranks | 72.6 (50) | 89.6 (55) | 92.7 (40) | 111.6 (43) | 66.3 (43) | 144.0 (87) | 104.3 (70) | 149.4 (94) | 114.8 (69) | ||
| Overall ranks* | 2 (4) | 3 (5) | 4 (1) | 6 (2) | 1 (3) | 8 (8) | 5 (7) | 9 (9) | 7 (6) | ||