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Table 1 Percentage of applicants to medical school by UK country according to four measures of socioeconomic status (SES)

From: Fair access to medicine? Retrospective analysis of UK medical schools application data 2009-2012 using three measures of socioeconomic status

 

England (n = 26442)

Scotland (n = 2479)

Wales (n = 1380)

N. Ireland (n = 1764)

UK (n = 32065)

UK application ratio (applicants: estimated population)

IMD decile (postcode assigned SES)

      

 1 deprived

5.7

2.3

3.6

1.8

5.1

0.51

 2

7.6

2.7

4.6

3.2

6.9

0.69

 3

7.1

3.3

3.9

4.6

6.6

0.66

 4

7.7

5.0

6.1

6.2

7.3

0.73

 5

8.4

6.8

5.7

7.7

8.1

0.81

 6

9.2

8.0

7.6

9.0

9.0

0.90

 7

9.5

8.9

7.8

9.2

9.4

0.94

 8

11.3

11.9

9.9

11.7

11.3

1.13

 9

13.8

18.9

16.4

16.2

14.5

1.45

 10 affluent

19.7

32.3

34.5

30.4

21.9

2.19

School typea

      

 Independent

25.9

29.6

14.9

0.2

24.3

3.74

 State

71.1

65.4

82.1

96.7

72.5

0.78

   Grammar

19.5

0.1

0.1

91.0

21.1

-

   Comp/FEC/SFC

51.6

65.3

82.0

5.7

51.4

-

 Missing/Unknown/Other

3.1

5.0

2.9

3.1

3.2

-

Parental NS-SEC

      

 1 Higher managerial/admin & professional

73.9

83.7

80.7

79.6

75.3

2.0

 2 Intermediate

4.6

5.0

5.2

5.6

4.7

0.4

 3 Small employers, own account workers

5.6

3.8

3.9

5.3

5.4

0.6

 4 Lower supervisory and technical

1.9

1.5

1.7

2.7

1.9

0.3

 5 Semi-routine and routine

3.2

1.0

1.8

1.5

2.9

0.1

 Missing

10.8

4.9

6.7

5.3

9.9

-

  1. aIndependent schools are fee-paying and mainly select by academic ability. State schools are government funded and free to use. Grammar schools select by academic ability. Comp/FEC/Other refers to comprehensive schools (non-selective), further education colleges (which provide non-selective education to some 16–18 year olds), other refers to a range of other school types including sixth-form colleges (which only provide education to 16–18 year olds)