European Health Survey  
PREVENTATIVE PRACTICES
Reason for the last pap smear, according to age group. Women aged 20 years old and over who have had a pap smear at some point in time
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	Experienced discomfort	Was referred by the general practitioner	Went to see the gynaecologist	Was given an appointment from the Autonomous Community or municipal council for an early cancer detection programme	Other medical reasons	Other non-medical reasons	No data recorded	
Total	13,674.6	768.4	1,116.3	8,716.9	1,538.4	1,045.7	443.2	45.7	
20 to 24 years old	618.2	48.6	64.5	392.8	29.5	78.4	4.3	0.0	
25 to 34 years old	2,750.0	162.7	200.2	1,890.8	151.3	248.5	94.1	2.4	
35 to 44 years old	3,216.7	166.7	236.7	2,200.2	254.8	216.3	141.9	0.0	
45 to 54 years old	2,834.6	100.3	216.4	1,862.8	373.2	192.3	85.9	3.6	
55 to 64 years old	2,097.5	113.8	158.5	1,265.0	378.0	118.2	56.1	7.9	
65 to 74 years old	1,323.8	98.2	137.1	703.9	240.8	101.6	30.6	11.6	
75 years old and over	833.8	78.1	102.9	401.4	110.8	90.3	30.2	20.2	
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