Use of health services and consumption of medicines. Absolute figures
Reason for the last doctor visit in the last 4 weeks, by sex and social class of the main breadwinner. Population that has visited a doctor in the last 4 weeks
Units: thousands of persons

,Total,Diagnosis of an illness or health problem,Check-up due to illness,Healthy child care programme (including vaccination),Administrative consultations (only to obtain medical prescriptions or sick leave documentation),Other reasons,Does not answer,
BOTH SEXES,
    Total,16,499.6,7,036.2,4,740.8,366.7,3,036.7,1,124.0,195.2,
    I: Executives of Public Administrations and of companies with 10 or more employees, and professions associated with university degrees,1,454.7,665.5,468.1,51.8,144.0,111.1,14.3,
    II: Executives of companies with fewer than 10 employees, and professions associated  with intermediate degrees. Advanced technicians. Artists and Sportspersons,1,538.9,679.2,476.2,48.1,207.6,109.2,18.5,
    III: Administrative type employees and Administrative and financial support professionals. Personal services and Security workers. Freelance workers. Supervisors of manual workers,3,855.5,1,611.7,1,156.6,68.9,707.1,276.4,34.8,
    IVa: Skilled manual workers,4,770.7,2,080.7,1,341.6,108.6,866.6,320.1,53.1,
    IVb: Semi-skilled manual workers,2,163.4,929.2,586.9,35.2,439.6,143.9,28.6,
    V: Unskilled workers,2,337.4,941.9,610.0,48.9,591.4,130.5,14.6,
    No data recorded,379.0,127.8,101.5,5.3,80.4,32.8,31.3,
MALES,
    Total,7,024.8,3,026.3,1,989.6,191.8,1,224.3,510.9,81.8,
    I: Executives of Public Administrations and of companies with 10 or more employees, and professions associated with university degrees,665.0,307.7,211.3,29.6,62.8,48.1,5.5,
    II: Executives of companies with fewer than 10 employees, and professions associated  with intermediate degrees. Advanced technicians. Artists and Sportspersons,648.0,300.2,187.2,27.3,81.6,42.2,9.4,
    III: Administrative type employees and Administrative and financial support professionals. Personal services and Security workers. Freelance workers. Supervisors of manual workers,1,663.6,691.0,502.5,34.0,290.6,133.9,11.6,
    IVa: Skilled manual workers,2,139.2,917.0,597.8,60.1,390.2,148.3,25.9,
    IVb: Semi-skilled manual workers,850.5,404.4,221.1,11.7,150.8,51.7,10.8,
    V: Unskilled workers,937.2,376.2,226.0,28.1,227.2,75.7,4.0,
    No data recorded,121.3,29.8,43.6,1.0,21.1,11.1,14.7,
FEMALES,
    Total,9,474.8,4,009.8,2,751.2,175.0,1,812.4,613.0,113.4,
    I: Executives of Public Administrations and of companies with 10 or more employees, and professions associated with university degrees,789.7,357.8,256.8,22.2,81.2,63.0,8.8,
    II: Executives of companies with fewer than 10 employees, and professions associated  with intermediate degrees. Advanced technicians. Artists and Sportspersons,890.9,379.1,289.0,20.8,126.0,66.9,9.1,
    III: Administrative type employees and Administrative and financial support professionals. Personal services and Security workers. Freelance workers. Supervisors of manual workers,2,191.9,920.7,654.0,34.8,416.6,142.6,23.2,
    IVa: Skilled manual workers,2,631.5,1,163.7,743.8,48.5,476.4,171.8,27.2,
    IVb: Semi-skilled manual workers,1,312.9,524.8,365.7,23.6,288.8,92.3,17.8,
    V: Unskilled workers,1,400.2,565.7,384.0,20.9,364.2,54.9,10.6,
    No data recorded,257.7,98.0,57.8,4.3,59.2,21.7,16.6,
Notes:
1) The categories 'Health monitoring (healthy child care programme)' and  'Vaccination' are only collected for persons under 16 years of age. 
  
 The category 'Sick leave documentation' only covers  persons aged 16 years old or over. 
  
 This table does not cover those persons who, having  visited a doctor in the last 4 weeks, have done so  in an accident and emergency service.
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE