Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of total population and SUD patients
Total population | SUD patients | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Reference (n = 810 188) | Physicians (n = 38 455) | Reference (n = 4 436; 0.5%) | Physicians (n = 133; 0.3%) | |
Gender (n (%)) | ||||
Male | 410 783 (50.7) | 17 138 (44.6) | 2 992 (67.4) | 82 (61.7) |
Female | 399 405 (49.3) | 21 317 (55.4) | 1 444 (32.6) | 51 (38.3) |
Age at cohort entry in years (mean (SD)) | 37.7 (10.7) | 40.5 (10.1) | 42.9 (10.3) | 45.2 (10.1) |
25–34 (n (%)) | 376 129 (46.4) | 13 071 (34.0) | 1096 (24.7) | 25 (18.8) |
35–44 (n (%)) | 227 568 (28.1) | 13 024 (33.9) | 1425 (32.1) | 39 (29.3) |
45–54 (n (%)) | 128 731 (15.9) | 7 675 (20.0) | 1184 (26.7) | 36 (27.1) |
55–65 (n (%)) | 77 760 (9.6) | 4 685 (12.2) | 731 (16.5) | 33 (24.8) |
Country of birth (n (%)) | ||||
The Netherlands | 692 960 (85.5) | 34 205 (88.9) | 3 734 (84.2) | 118 (88.7) |
European | 32 982 (4.1) | 726 (1.9) | 204 (4.6) | 4 (3.0) |
Non-European | 84 246 (10.4) | 3 524 (9.2) | 498 (11.2) | 11 (8.3) |
Specialty group (n (%)) | ||||
General practice | NA | 9 657 (25.1) | NA | 25 (18.8) |
(Psycho) social | 5 142 (13.4) | 33 (24.8) | ||
Contemplative somatic | 7 868 (20.5) | 14 (10.5) | ||
Surgical and supportive | 7225 (18.8) | 10 (7.5) | ||
No specialty | 8563 (22.3) | 51 (38.3) | ||
Educational background (n (%)) | ||||
Teaching | 59 804 (7.4) | NA | 315 (7.1) | NA |
Humanities and arts | 88 877 (11.0) | 789 (17.8) | ||
Social sciences, business and law | 382 871 (47.3) | 2 170 (48.9) | ||
Science, mathematics and computing | 67 919 (8.4) | 350 (7.9) | ||
Engineering, manufacturing and construction | 73 070 (9.0) | 267 (6.0) | ||
Agriculture and veterinary | 13 534 (1.7) | 46 (1.0) | ||
Health and welfare (including medicine) | 102 420 (12.6) | 367 (8.3) | ||
Services | 13 549 (1.7) | 91 (2.1) | ||