European Health Survey  
PREVENTATIVE PRACTICES
Reason since the last fecal occult blood test by sex. Population from 50 to 69 years old that had a fecal occult blood test sometime.
Units: thousands of persons

	TOTAL	Due to some problem, symptom or disease	Due to the advice of their primary care doctor or specialist, though they had no problem	Due to a letter, call or advice received from the health care centre of wanting to have this test done	Other reasons	No data recorded	
Both sexes	2,160.1	801.3	432.6	829.9	90.3	6.0	
Men	998.3	320.3	233.9	392.9	50.3	1.0	
Women	1,161.8	481.0	198.7	437.0	40.0	5.0	
Notes:
1) The symbol '.'  shall be deemed as datum which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample
 The symbol '..' Shall be deemed as datum which is not collected for that classification of the table
 The data corresponding to cells with less than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error
Source: National Statistics Institute