| Table 7.2 | ||||||||||||
| Child Out-Patient during previous 3 months by Head of Household | ||||||||||||
| socio-economic group, 1997-98 to 2007-08 | ||||||||||||
| All Children aged less than 16 | Percentages | |||||||||||
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | Base (2007-08) =100%1 | |
| Professional | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 73 |
| Employer, manager | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 190 |
| Intermediate non manual | 9 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 165 |
| Junior non manual | 12 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 167 |
| Skilled manual | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 309 |
| Semi-skilled manual | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 153 |
| Unskilled manual | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 6 | [12] | 49 |
| No SEG,ref etc,armed forces | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 209 |
| All children | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1,315 |
| Source: Continuous Household Survey | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | ||||||||||||
| 1Bases for earlier years are of a similar size | ||||||||||||
| Where the base is 0-49, the percentages are shown in square brackets | ||||||||||||