Table 4

Cervical cancer incidence (1991–7) and mortality (1991–9) rates in deprived and affluent English health authorities

	1991–3	1993–5	% change 1991–5	1995–7	% change 1993–7	% change 1991–7	1991–3	1993–5	% change 1991–5	1995–7	1997–9	% change 1995–9	% change 1991–9
* and †: three year averages.
Incidence*	Mortality†
All ages
All health authorities (n=99)	12.42	11.37	8.5	10.24	9.9	17.6	5.2	4.46	14.2	4.09	3.58	12.5	31.2
Affluent HAs (n=33)	10.26	9.84	4.1	8.89	9.6	13.3	4.23	3.71	12.3	3.24	2.92	10.0	31.0
Neither HAs (n=33)	12.68	11.36	10.4	10.27	9.6	19.0	5.53	4.49	18.7	4.23	3.62	14.3	34.5
Deprived HAs (n=33)	14.34	12.92	9.9	11.57	10.5	19.3	5.87	5.17	12.0	4.81	4.20	12.8	28.6
log variance	0.46	0.34		0.28			0.07	0.01		0.05	−0.04
<35 years
All health authorities (n=99)	4.28	4.33	−1.2	4.10	5.3	4.2	0.68	0.55	19.1	0.59	0.52	11.9	23.5
Affluent HAs (n=33)	4.24	4.75	−11.9	4.21	11.4	0.8	0.66	0.62	5.8	0.58	0.45	22.0	31.3
Neither HAs (n=33)	4.29	4.16	3.1	4.02	3.4	6.4	0.74	0.50	32.8	0.61	0.59	3.0	20.1
Deprived HAs (n=33)	4.31	4.08	5.5	4.07	0.2	5.6	0.65	0.53	18.1	0.58	0.51	12.3	21.5
log variance	−1.31	−0.32		−1.01			−2.12	−1.20	−1.06		−1.40
35–64 years
All health authorities (n=99)	20.03	18.03	10.0	16.05	11.0	19.9	7.82	6.67	14.7	6.13	5.29	13.7	32.4
Affluent HAs (n=33)	15.61	14.65	6.2	13.19	10.0	15.5	5.90	5.03	14.8	4.53	4.24	6.5	28.2
Neither HAs (n=33)	20.78	18.37	11.6	16.25	11.5	21.8	8.77	7.00	20.2	6.45	5.23	18.9	40.3
Deprived HAs (n=33)	23.71	21.07	11.1	18.70	11.2	21.1	8.80	7.97	9.4	7.41	6.38	13.9	27.5
log variance	0.76	0.66		0.59			0.31	0.32		0.31	0.18