European Health Survey  
HEALTH EXPENDITURE
Expenditure on medicine prescribed by a doctor and consumed in the last 2 weeks, according to sex and Autonomous Community. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years old and over that has consumed medicine prescribed by a doctor in the last 2 weeks.
Units: average and standard deviation

	Average	Standard deviation	
Both sexes	
    Total	10.93	55.72	
    Andaluc¡a	7.97	22.03	
    Arag¢n	7.75	15.60	
    Asturias (Principado de)	6.24	17.09	
    Balears (Illes)	8.81	41.62	
    Canarias	12.73	26.45	
    Cantabria	8.74	56.12	
    Castilla y Le¢n	7.32	28.77	
    Castilla-La Mancha	8.50	15.52	
    Catalu¤a	17.25	115.99	
    Comunitat Valenciana	11.60	24.86	
    Extremadura	8.52	27.24	
    Galicia	7.85	32.07	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	12.13	28.46	
    Murcia (Regi¢n de)	13.13	71.43	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	4.28	9.96	
    Pa¡s Vasco	15.68	102.42	
    Rioja (La)	5.80	18.55	
    Ceuta (Ciudad Aut¢noma de)	10.74	74.79	
    Melilla (Ciudad Aut¢noma de)	14.61	29.54	
Male	
    Total	9.24	43.64	
    Andaluc¡a	6.38	12.74	
    Arag¢n	5.11	10.35	
    Asturias (Principado de)	6.64	19.70	
    Balears (Illes)	4.94	11.79	
    Canarias	10.50	16.97	
    Cantabria	10.90	77.06	
    Castilla y Le¢n	5.58	17.17	
    Castilla-La Mancha	8.59	16.40	
    Catalu¤a	11.86	54.19	
    Comunitat Valenciana	10.26	18.34	
    Extremadura	8.78	26.24	
    Galicia	5.27	11.96	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	10.53	20.01	
    Murcia (Regi¢n de)	15.64	108.37	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	4.17	10.90	
    Pa¡s Vasco	19.64	143.57	
    Rioja (La)	6.34	22.37	
    Ceuta (Ciudad Aut¢noma de)	6.19	22.17	
    Melilla (Ciudad Aut¢noma de)	18.20	38.73	
Female	
    Total	12.12	62.82	
    Andaluc¡a	9.04	26.42	
    Arag¢n	9.66	18.26	
    Asturias (Principado de)	5.95	14.82	
    Balears (Illes)	11.80	54.24	
    Canarias	14.43	31.72	
    Cantabria	6.81	25.47	
    Castilla y Le¢n	8.56	34.70	
    Castilla-La Mancha	8.44	14.88	
    Catalu¤a	21.14	144.94	
    Comunitat Valenciana	12.55	28.57	
    Extremadura	8.32	27.96	
    Galicia	9.59	40.22	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	13.25	33.08	
    Murcia (Regi¢n de)	11.51	28.48	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	4.35	9.23	
    Pa¡s Vasco	13.26	65.47	
    Rioja (La)	5.33	14.40	
    Ceuta (Ciudad Aut¢noma de)	14.43	98.57	
    Melilla (Ciudad Aut¢noma de)	11.55	17.86	
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