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Table 2 Percentage of applicants with an accepted offer for 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 = 7772)1

Scotland (n = 1315)

Wales (n = 467)1

N. Ireland (n = 883)

UK (n = 10437)

UK selection ratio (accepted offers: applicants)

IMD decile (postcode assigned SES)

      

 1 deprived

3.5

1.9

2.6

1.2

3.1

0.60

 2

5.2

2.4

3.9

2.0

4.5

0.66

 3

5.9

2.8

2.1

4.0

5.2

0.79

 4

6.9

4.6

5.4

5.5

6.4

0.88

 5

7.9

6.5

6.2

7.6

7.6

0.94

 6

9.1

6.7

6.9

7.5

8.5

0.95

 7

10.6

8.7

8.4

9.3

10.1

1.08

 8

12.5

12.1

9.4

11.9

12.3

1.09

 9

15.4

18.9

17.6

17.4

16.1

1.11

 10 affluent

22.9

35.5

37.7

33.5

26.1

1.19

School typea

      

 Independent

29.0

34.8

13.9

0.1

26.6

1.09

 State

68.2

61.0

82.2

96.3

70.3

0.97

   Grammar

22.2

0.1

0.2

92.1

24.3

1.15

   Comp/FEC/SFC

46.0

60.9

82.0

4.2

46.0

0.89

 Missing/Unknown/Other

2.9

4.2

3.9

3.6

3.1

0.97

Parental NS-SEC

      

 1 Higher managerial/admin & professional

78.3

86.2

83.9

81.4

79.8

1.06

 2 Intermediate

4.3

4.6

4.1

5.5

4.4

0.94

 3 Small employers, own account workers

4.7

3.1

3.4

5.0

4.5

0.83

 4 Lower supervisory and technical

1.6

1.4

0.6

1.7

1.5

0.79

 5 Semi-routine and routine

2.0

0.6

1.9

0.9

1.7

0.59

 Missing

9.2

4.0

6.0

5.4

8.1

0.82

  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