Women's knowledge of how breast cancer risk varies by age: by socioeconomic characteristics.
| Responses to the question:When is a woman most likely to get breast cancer? % (95% CI) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | In her40s | In her50s | In her60s | In her70s | In her80s + | Agespecifieda | Age doesn't matter | Don't know | |
| Cars available to household | |||||||||
| 0 | 315 | 9.0 | 14.4 | 6.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 30.8 | 63.4 (56.4 to 69.8) | 5.9 |
| 1 | 712 | 10.7 | 18.4 | 7.3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 38.7 | 56.3 (51.5 to 61.0) | 5.0 |
| ≥2 | 469 | 7.8 | 27.3 | 6.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 44.0 | 53.1 (47.4 to 58.7) | 2.9 |
| Housing tenureb | |||||||||
| Rents | 303 | 11.8 | 12.9 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 31.5 | 61.6 (54.9 to 67.9) | 6.9 |
| Owns with mortgage | 557 | 7.7 | 26.6 | 6.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 42.7 | 55.7 (50.2 to 60.9) | 1.7 |
| Owns outright | 635 | 9.7 | 19.5 | 8.1 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 39.7 | 54.5 (49.5 to 59.5) | 5.7 |
| Highest level of educationb | |||||||||
| No qualifications | 556 | 12.1 | 16.1 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 34.8 | 60.2 (54.6 to 65.6) | 5.0 |
| Below degree level (including other) | 712 | 7.8 | 22.1 | 6.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 37.4 | 58.4 (53.5 to 63.1) | 4.2 |
| Degree or equivalent | 227 | 7.8 | 30.6 | 11.7 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 57.5 | 39.5 (32.4 to 47.2) | 3.0 |
| National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification | |||||||||
| Routine and manual occupations | 598 | 11.2 | 17.7 | 4.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 34.3 | 61.3 (56.3 to 66.1) | 4.4 |
| Intermediate occupations | 353 | 9.5 | 18.1 | 8.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 38.2 | 57.0 (51.1 to 62.7) | 4.8 |
| Managerial and professional occupations | 497 | 7.1 | 27.7 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 46.8 | 49.4 (43.9 to 54.9) | 3.8 |
| Not classified | 48 | 6.9 | 22.1 | 7.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36.9 | 59.0 (42.4 to 73.7) | 4.1 |