European Health Survey  
PREVENTATIVE PRACTICES
Time elapsed since the last cholesterol test, according to sex and current relationship with economic activity. Population aged 16 years old and over that has had cholesterol tested at some point in time
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	In the last 12 months	More than 1 year ago, but no more than 5 years ago	Over 5 years ago	No data recorded	
Both sexes	
    Total	35,648.3	26,340.8	8,390.8	850.7	66.0	
    Working	17,171.4	12,798.4	3,981.7	364.6	26.7	
    Unemployed	4,457.9	2,712.3	1,586.7	150.3	8.5	
    Studying	2,146.1	1,224.5	785.6	132.6	3.4	
    Retired person, Pensioner	6,817.3	5,720.5	988.8	92.8	15.2	
    Incapacitated to work	903.6	721.9	154.9	19.1	7.8	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	3,976.5	3,016.3	865.8	90.0	4.4	
    Other situations	152.0	125.7	25.1	1.3	0.0	
    No data recorded	23.5	..	..	..	..	
Male	
    Total	17,288.8	12,632.7	4,150.4	468.7	37.0	
    Working	9,665.5	7,211.3	2,209.0	227.5	17.8	
    Unemployed	2,290.2	1,319.0	870.3	97.9	3.0	
    Studying	1,067.4	546.6	438.7	78.6	3.4	
    Retired person, Pensioner	3,590.3	3,012.0	515.2	56.4	6.7	
    Incapacitated to work	511.1	409.0	89.0	7.2	5.9	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	65.1	54.1	11.0	0.0	0.0	
    Other situations	87.6	70.4	16.2	1.0	0.0	
    No data recorded	11.5	..	..	..	..	
Female	
    Total	18,359.5	13,708.1	4,240.4	382.0	29.1	
    Working	7,505.9	5,587.1	1,772.8	137.2	8.8	
    Unemployed	2,167.6	1,393.3	716.4	52.3	5.5	
    Studying	1,078.7	677.8	346.9	54.0	0.0	
    Retired person, Pensioner	3,226.9	2,708.5	473.6	36.4	8.4	
    Incapacitated to work	392.5	312.9	65.9	11.9	1.9	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	3,911.4	2,962.2	854.8	90.0	4.4	
    Other situations	64.4	55.3	8.8	0.3	0.0	
    No data recorded	12.1	..	..	..	..	
Notes:
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which is not collected
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an error of division by zero
 The data corresponding to cells with fewer than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error.
Source: National Statistics Institute