Table B1.5 : Age group and gender1,2 :  1998/99 - 2002/03
percentage and number of individuals ; gender and age group
NEW INDIVIDUAL PATIENT/CLIENTS
	1998/99r	1999/00r	2000/01r	2001/02r	2002/03		1998/99r	1999/00r	2000/01r	2001/02r	2002/03
	percentage						number
Males & females  (=100%)							9 128	10 440	10 575	11 648	11 472
Under 15 years	0	1	1	1	1		45	53	84	108	102
15-19 years	14	13	11	10	8		1 267	1 338	1 159	1 162	957
20-24 years	30	29	27	26	26		2 776	3 007	2 894	3 043	2 955
25-29 years	27	28	28	28	27		2 429	2 892	2 995	3 226	3 127
30-34 years	17	18	19	19	20		1 586	1 845	1 965	2 221	2 318
35-39 years	7	8	9	10	11		618	819	946	1 212	1 278
40 years and over	4	5	5	6	6		407	486	532	676	735
Males (=100%)							6 237	6 980	7 186	7 840	7 641
Under 15 years	0	1	1	1	1		30	36	54	66	71
15-19 years	12	11	9	8	6		776	779	665	651	494
20-24 years	29	28	26	24	24		1 798	1 946	1 879	1 907	1 811
25-29 years	28	29	29	29	28		1 725	1 997	2 081	2 278	2 124
30-34 years	19	19	20	20	22		1 183	1 324	1 445	1 564	1 657
35-39 years	7	8	10	11	12		441	571	687	868	945
40 years and over	5	5	5	6	7		284	327	375	506	539
Females  (=100%)							2 891	3 460	3 389	3 808	3 831
Under 15 years	1	0	1	1	1		15	17	30	42	31
15-19 years	17	16	15	13	12		491	559	494	511	463
20-24 years	34	31	30	30	30		978	1 061	1 015	1 136	1 144
25-29 years	24	26	27	25	26		704	895	914	948	1 003
30-34 years	14	15	15	17	17		403	521	520	657	661
35-39 years	6	7	8	9	9		177	248	259	344	333
40 years and over	4	5	5	4	5		123	159	157	170	196
1  All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.
2  An additional 9 agencies in Ayrshire & Arran began contributing to SDMD in 1999/00.
- (zero); 0 (>0.0 & <0.5)
r Revised.
||  Due to rounding percentages may not add up to 100%.
Source : Scottish Drug Misuse Database