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Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2006

 

Table A1.6: Ethnic profile of new individuals1: 2001/02 - 2005/06
number of individuals by ethnic group
NEW INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS/CLIENTS

 

2001/02r

2002/03r

2003/04r

2004/05r

2005/06r

New Individual patients/clients

11 685

11 716

13 232

14 998

13 791

Information available (=100%)

10 589

10 800

11 095

13 239

12 278

White

10 513

10 734

10 984

13 119

12 162

Indian

20

8

12

18

15

Pakistani

11

22

33

17

20

Bangladeshi

1

-

3

1

2

Black-caribbean

3

2

12

7

10

Black-african

2

2

4

6

4

Black-other

5

8

11

21

13

Chinese

5

1

4

3

3

Other

29

23

32

47

49

1 All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.
- (zero); 0 (>0.0 & <0.5)
r Revised.
Source: ISD Scotland (SMR24).