Health care. Absolute figures
Reason for the last faecal occult blood check by sex. Population aged 50 to 69 years old that has had the test done.
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	Due to a health problem symptom or illness	Due to the primary care physician or specialist advise, but without any health problem	Due to a letter, call or advise received from the health care centre of having this test done	Other reasons	No data recorded	
BOTH SEXES	1,070.1	458.4	248.2	275.5	83.5	4.5	
MALES	533.4	217.0	131.0	135.4	49.0	0.9	
FEMALES	536.7	241.4	117.2	140.1	34.5	3.5	
Notes:
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which are not collected for this classification in the table.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero.
 The data corresponding to cells with fewer than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution,  as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error.
Source: Ministry of Public Health, Social Services and Equality and INE