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Written question asked by Chris Ruane (Labour) on Wednesday, 19 January 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 21 January 2011. It was answered by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 26 January 2011 on behalf of the Department of Health.


Depressive Illnesses

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will assess long-term trends in rates of depression among those aged (a) 15 to 19, (b) 20 to 24 and (c) 65 years and over.
Answer

This information is not included in the Department's regular statistical terms and is not available for the age groups requested. However, some information is available from the report 'Adult Psychiatric Morbidity in England, 2007—Results of a Household Survey', published jointly by the Office of National Statistics and the National Health Service Information Centre. A copy has been placed in the Library. The following table gives information on the percentage of people in the available age groups who were suffering from a mixed anxiety and depression disorder in 1993, 2000 and 2007.

Percentage
Age group 16-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74
1993 8.3 8.4 6.8 5.0 —
2002 9.9 9.9 9.3 7.5 5.2
2007 10.5 8.5 11.2 8.0 6.4

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
35799; 522 c373W
Session
2010-12
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2010-1712
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects
Depressive illnesses
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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