Consulting rates of general practitioners by demographic groups in a defined community

The demographic characteristics were recorded of 4798 patients aged from 15 to 69 years who consulted, for any reason, the general practitioners of 97% of the practices in the Perth Statistical Division on one day in 1971. A consulting rate in terms of the population at risk was calculated for patients of different sex, age, marital status, country of birth, and social class. Certain characteristics of the general practitioners were also related to the demographic characteristics of their patients.