European Health Survey  
VISITS TO THE DOCTOR
Reason for the last doctor's appointment in the last 4 weeks by sex, age group, and educational level. Population aged 15 years old and over that had visited the doctor in the last 4 weeks, except accident and emergency services.
Units: percentage

	TOTAL	Diagnosis of an illness or health problem	Check-up due to illness	Administration visits (dispensing of prescriptions or medical leaves/medical discharges)	Other reasons	
Both sexes	
    TOTAL	
        TOTAL	100.00	36.63	40.64	14.92	7.82	
        Basic and lower	100.00	37.50	38.94	16.43	7.13	
        Medium	100.00	38.59	40.61	12.34	8.47	
        Upper	100.00	32.69	45.26	12.88	9.17	
    From 15 to 24 years old	
        TOTAL	100.00	38.75	39.79	6.37	15.10	
        Basic and lower	100.00	41.37	37.93	4.67	16.02	
        Medium	100.00	35.28	42.22	7.98	14.53	
        Upper	100.00	36.37	41.52	9.37	12.73	
    From 25 to 64 years old	
        TOTAL	100.00	37.56	40.13	14.04	8.27	
        Basic and lower	100.00	38.56	37.83	15.45	8.16	
        Medium	100.00	40.77	38.92	13.01	7.30	
        Upper	100.00	33.58	44.77	12.47	9.17	
    Aged 65 years old and over	
        TOTAL	100.00	34.34	41.80	18.67	5.19	
        Basic and lower	100.00	35.72	40.32	19.37	4.59	
        Medium	100.00	28.81	49.26	13.20	8.73	
        Upper	100.00	26.35	49.31	16.41	7.93	
Men	
    TOTAL	
        TOTAL	100.00	35.39	39.08	16.52	9.01	
        Basic and lower	100.00	35.93	38.86	17.51	7.69	
        Medium	100.00	36.96	37.20	15.36	10.48	
        Upper	100.00	32.69	41.18	14.79	11.34	
    From 15 to 24 years old	
        TOTAL	100.00	43.86	31.74	6.46	17.93	
        Basic and lower	100.00	44.93	33.77	4.42	16.88	
        Medium	100.00	39.61	28.41	6.29	25.70	
        Upper	100.00	.	.	.	.	
    From 25 to 64 years old	
        TOTAL	100.00	36.57	38.70	14.96	9.77	
        Basic and lower	100.00	36.94	39.08	15.38	8.61	
        Medium	100.00	38.20	36.68	16.32	8.80	
        Upper	100.00	34.65	39.61	13.14	12.60	
    Aged 65 years old and over	
        TOTAL	100.00	31.55	41.29	21.35	5.81	
        Basic and lower	100.00	33.25	39.49	22.18	5.09	
        Medium	100.00	29.90	45.01	16.88	8.22	
        Upper	100.00	23.63	48.49	19.77	8.11	
Women	
    TOTAL	
        TOTAL	100.00	37.49	41.72	13.81	6.99	
        Basic and lower	100.00	38.58	38.99	15.69	6.74	
        Medium	100.00	39.76	43.07	10.15	7.02	
        Upper	100.00	32.69	48.14	11.53	7.63	
    From 15 to 24 years old	
        TOTAL	100.00	35.69	44.60	6.31	13.40	
        Basic and lower	100.00	38.70	41.06	4.87	15.38	
        Medium	100.00	33.27	48.63	8.76	9.34	
        Upper	100.00	31.50	46.89	5.49	16.12	
    From 25 to 64 years old	
        TOTAL	100.00	38.23	41.10	13.41	7.26	
        Basic and lower	100.00	39.70	36.96	15.50	7.84	
        Medium	100.00	42.57	40.48	10.70	6.24	
        Upper	100.00	32.93	47.96	12.06	7.06	
    Aged 65 years old and over	
        TOTAL	100.00	36.48	42.19	16.61	4.72	
        Basic and lower	100.00	37.35	40.87	17.52	4.26	
        Medium	100.00	27.27	55.31	7.96	9.45	
        Upper	100.00	31.21	50.76	10.44	7.59	
Notes:

.Data protected by statistical secrecy

1) In this table are not considered those persons who, having visited a doctor during the  last 4 weeks, in an accident and emergency service.

 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 this classification in 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