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Table 6. Descriptive statistics for independent variables by gender in remote areas
Remote areas
Males Females
Variable Mean Min Max SD Mean Min Max SD
AB and TSI (% of total pop) 12.6 5.5 21.1 5.7 12.9 5.1 22.3 6.9
Divorce (% of total pop) 5.4 3.8 6.9 0.9 5.5 4.2 6.7 0.8
Unemployment (% of employed pop) 5.5 3.3 8.7 1.9 5.8 3.6 8.6 1.5
Agricultural employed (% of total employed pop) 16.4 0.6 25.0 8.9 3.5 0.1 6.6 2.4
Overseas born (% of total pop) 9.0 6.4 11.8 1.7 10.8 6.3 18.7 3.7
Year 12 education (% of total pop) 21.6 18.4 26.9 2.4 24.9 21.1 29.9 2.9
Overseas in the past year (% of total pop) 0.5 0.3 0.7 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.2
Hindi (% of total pop) 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0
Islam (% of total pop) 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1
Christian (% of total pop) 70.2 63.5 76.5 4.2 75.0 68.4 80.9 4.7
Buddhist (% of total pop) 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.7 0.2
Catholic (% of total pop) 35.1 23.2 78.7 16.3 30.0 24.3 35.7 3.9
Family with children (couple with a child) (% of total pop) 48.6 39.5 58.9 5.7 49.1 48.4 50.2 0.6
Average income per capita ($ per week) $535.4 $429.6 $615.8 $66.5 $336.9 $312.7 $363.5 $19.6
Expend. on antidepressants per capita ($ per year) $12.0 $6.9 $18.9 $3.8 $17.2 $12.9 $23.0 $4.3
Expend. on other psychotr. meds. per capita ($ per year) $15.1 $4.3 $32.3 $9.4 $8.9 $5.1 $13.1 $2.6
Psychiatrist services per 100 persons 1.1 0.7 1.5 0.3 1.6 0.8 2.1 0.5
GP services per 100 persons 332.1 254.0 377.4 43.2 452.9 368.4 529.1 60.8
Data sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001a; Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006c; Department of Health and Ageing, 2010a, b.
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