2001 Census: Health and Provision of Unpaid Care

Summary Tables:

Limiting Long-Term Illness

This table gives information about limiting long-term illness. A limiting long term illness is an illness or disability which limits a person's daily activities or the work they can do.This variable is self assessed by the respondent and refers to the 12 months leading up to the 2001 Census. All people are included in this table.

	All people	Percentage of People with a Limiting Long-Term Illness	Percentage of People of Working Age with Limiting Long-Term Illness
Basingstoke & Deane	152,573	13.07	9.44
East Hampshire	109,274	14.2	9.68
Eastleigh	116,169	14.41	10.09
Fareham	107,977	15.32	9.89
Gosport	76,415	16.81	11.75
Hart	83,505	11.16	7.44
Havant	116,849	18.31	13.08
New Forest	169,331	17.85	11.66
Rushmoor	90,987	13.21	9.75
Test Valley	109,801	14.09	9.78
Winchester	107,222	14.22	9.23
Portsmouth	186,701	17.44	12.46
Southampton	217,445	17.43	12.95
Hampshire	1,240,103	14.94	10.2
Hampshire (Including Portsmouth and Southampton)	1,644,249	15.55	n/a

General Health

This table gives information about general health. This variable is self assessed by the respondent and refers to the 12 months leading up to the 2001 Census. All people are included in this table.

	All people	Percentage of people whose general health was: Good	Percentage of people whose general health was: Fairly Good	Percentage of people whose general health was: Not Good
Basingstoke & Deane	152573	74.33	19.73	5.95
East Hampshire	109274	74.11	19.92	5.97
Eastleigh	116169	73.26	20.27	6.47
Fareham	107977	72.18	21.02	6.79
Gosport	76415	68.94	23.04	8.02
Hart	83505	77.24	17.93	4.83
Havant	116849	67.89	23.58	8.53
New Forest	169331	69.41	22.96	7.62
Rushmoor	90987	73.48	20.35	6.17
Test Valley	109801	73.69	20.15	6.16
Winchester	107222	74.61	19.49	5.91
Portsmouth	186701	67.87	23.48	8.65
Southampton	217445	68.31	23.1	8.6
Hampshire	1240103	72.51	20.86	6.63
Hampshire (Including Portsmouth and Southampton)	1644249	71.43	21.45	7.12

Provision of Unpaid Care

This tables gives information about provision of unpaid care. The number of people who provide unpaid care to family members or others that have physical or mental ill-health are reported by the provision of unpaid care variable. All people that provide unpaid care are included in this table.

	All People Who Provide Unpaid Care	Percentage of People Who Provide Unpaid Care: 1-19 Hours Per Week	Percentage of People Who Provide Unpaid Care: 20-49 Hours Per Week	Percentage of People Who Provide Unpaid Care: 50 Or More Hours Per Week
Basingstoke & Deane	12,670	74.55	8.84	16.61
East Hampshire	10,207	76.96	7.9	15.15
Eastleigh	10,759	74.26	8.47	17.27
Fareham	10,081	74.67	8.53	16.8
Gosport	6,545	65.78	11.11	23.12
Hart	7,021	79.19	7.28	13.53
Havant	11,490	67.16	9.85	22.99
New Forest	17,697	72.63	8.94	18.43
Rushmoor	6,938	72.24	9.53	18.23
Test Valley	10,327	76.17	7.85	15.98
Winchester	10,100	79.03	7.36	13.61
Portsmouth	14,983	66.66	10.47	22.87
Southampton	18,155	66.67	11.46	21.87
Hampshire	113,835	73.89	8.67	17.45
Hampshire (Including Portsmouth and Southampton)	146,973	72.26	9.19	18.54

Commentary:

Hampshire County

The percentage of people in Hampshire who stated that they had a limiting long term illness increased from 10.1 per cent in 1991 to 14.9 per cent in 2001, compared to the national average of 18.2 per cent. Although the ageing of the population may have had some influence on this increase, the percentage of Hampshire’s working age population (16-64 for men; 16-59 for women) with a limiting long term illness also increased from 6.4 per cent in 1991 to 10.2 per cent in 2001, below the national average of 13.6 per cent.

At district level, Havant (18.3 per cent), New Forest (17.9 per cent) and Gosport (16.8 per cent) had the highest percentages of people with limiting long term illness, with Havant above the national average. These districts also had the largest percentages of working age people with a limiting long term illness. In contrast, Hart had the lowest percentages for both the total population (11.2 per cent) and working age population (7.4 per cent).

The 2001 Census also asked respondents to indicate whether they rated their general health as good, fairly good, or not good. 72.5 per cent of Hampshire residents rated their general health as good, 20.9 per cent as fairly good, and 6.6 per cent as not good. The corresponding national percentages were 68.6, 22.2, and 9.2 respectively.

Hart was the district with the largest percentage reporting good health (77.2 per cent), while Havant had the smallest percentage (67.9 per cent). Hart also had the lowest percentage of the population reporting not good health at 4.8 per cent, compared to a high of 8.5 per cent in Havant.

11.5 per cent of Hampshire residents aged 16 and over provide unpaid care for others, compared with 12.6 per cent in England and Wales. 17.5 per cent of these unpaid carers in Hampshire provided care for 50 or more hours per week, compared with 20.9 per cent nationally.

Within Hampshire, the percentages of the population aged 16 and over providing unpaid care ranged from 12.8 per cent in New Forest to 9.7 per cent in Rushmoor. A high of 23 per cent of carers in Gosport and Havant provided care for 50 or more hours each week, compared to a low of 13.5 per cent in Hart.

Portsmouth and Southampton

17.4 per cent of all people in Portsmouth and Southampton had a limiting long-term illness in 2001, while 12.5 per cent of people of working age in Portsmouth, and 13 per cent in Southamptonreported a limiting long-term illness.

The percentage of the population reporting their health as good was lower in the two cities than the majority of the districts in Hampshire, with 67.9 per cent in Portsmouth and 68.3 per cent in Southampton, with a larger percentage reporting their health as fairly good, or not good.

The percentage of the population providing unpaid care was similar to that in Hampshire County, with a slightly higher percentage of people in Portsmouth and Southampton than in most other districts providing care for 20 or more hours per week, at 22.9 per cent and 21.9 per cent respectively.