European Health Survey  
HEALTH EXPENDITURE
Expenditure on medicine prescribed by a doctor and consumed in the last 2 weeks, according to sex and current relationship with economic activity. 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	
    Working	15.52	42.32	
    Unemployed	12.24	25.35	
    Studying	9.72	21.71	
    Retired person, Pensioner	7.24	87.08	
    Incapacitated to work	4.69	22.34	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	8.24	24.31	
    Other situations	8.30	12.30	
Male	
    Total	9.24	43.64	
    Working	13.51	38.74	
    Unemployed	10.30	18.38	
    Studying	9.78	22.65	
    Retired person, Pensioner	5.12	56.53	
    Incapacitated to work	2.51	10.14	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	0.11	0.53	
    Other situations	6.36	8.30	
Female	
    Total	12.12	62.82	
    Working	17.44	45.40	
    Unemployed	13.56	29.09	
    Studying	9.69	21.21	
    Retired person, Pensioner	9.51	110.85	
    Incapacitated to work	7.59	31.80	
    Mainly dedicated to household chores	8.40	24.51	
    Other situations	10.12	14.91	
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