The Australian longitudinal study on male health-methods

Table 4 Comparison of Ten to Men participants with 2011 Census data for males age 10鈥�55 in Major Cities, Inner Regional and Outer Regional RAs

Characteristic	Ten to men %^a n鈥�=鈥�15,988	2011 census % N鈥�=鈥�6,472,834
Age
鈥�10鈥�19	17.1	21.3
鈥�20鈥�29	17.6	22.2
鈥�30鈥�39	23.1	22.8
鈥�40鈥�49	26.8	22.2
鈥�50鈥�55	15.5	12.5
Australian born	77.7	69.2
Indigenous origin	2.8	2.2
Region
鈥僊ajor City	57.6	74
鈥僆nner Regional	22.7	16.9
鈥僌uter Regional	19.6	9.1
Socio-economic Disadvantage (SEIFA^b)
鈥�1st Quintile	19.1	18.3
鈥�2nd Quintile	18.6	19.5
鈥�3rd Quintile	22.4	20.1
鈥�4th Quintile	20.3	20.5
鈥�5th Quintile	19.5	20.9

^a all proportions based on unweighted frequency counts
^b Australian Bureau of Statistics, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas - Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD). This is general socio-economic index produced from census data summarising range of indicators of economic and social disadvantage [32]. Lower IRSD scores indicate greater disadvantage

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