European Health Survey  
PREVENTATIVE PRACTICES
Reason for the last Pap test by age group and educational level. Women aged 15 years old and over that had had a Pap 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	
TOTAL	
    TOTAL	14,648.7	1,476.1	9,632.8	1,859.2	1,667.7	12.9	
    Basic and inferior	6,826.8	843.9	4,251.1	1,085.0	636.2	10.6	
    Medium	3,073.4	300.7	2,022.5	337.7	411.4	1.2	
    Upper	4,748.5	331.5	3,359.2	436.5	620.1	1.1	
From 15 to 24 years old	
    TOTAL	774.9	121.3	497.8	44.9	111.0	0.0	
    Basic and inferior	281.8	42.0	169.5	13.7	56.6	0.0	
    Medium	307.6	55.1	204.7	6.0	41.9	0.0	
    Upper	185.5	24.2	123.7	25.2	12.5	0.0	
From 25 to 64 years old	
    TOTAL	11,258.7	1,009.7	7,588.7	1,343.9	1,313.1	3.4	
    Basic and inferior	4,419.1	495.8	2,858.9	665.9	396.8	1.8	
    Medium	2,538.4	229.2	1,676.1	291.9	340.1	1.2	
    Upper	4,301.1	284.7	3,053.7	386.1	576.2	0.5	
Aged 65 years old and over	
    TOTAL	2,615.1	345.2	1,546.3	470.5	243.7	9.4	
    Basic and inferior	2,125.9	306.1	1,222.8	405.5	182.8	8.8	
    Medium	227.4	16.4	141.8	39.8	29.5	0.0	
    Upper	261.8	22.7	181.8	25.2	31.5	0.7	
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