The demographic characteristics of female patients before and after the implementation of the Between the Flags programme
| Before | Run-in | After | |||||
| 2007/2008 | 2009/2010 | 2011/2013 | P values | ||||
| n=1 370 305 | (%) | n=1 424 615 | (%) | n=2 319 250 | (%) | ||
| Age groups | <0.001 | ||||||
| 18–34 year | 323 562 | (23.6) | 319 592 | (22.4) | 506 685 | (21.8) | |
| 35–54 year | 306 689 | (22.4) | 320 029 | (22.5) | 503 044 | (21.7) | |
| 55–74 year | 377 574 | (27.6) | 401 008 | (28.1) | 667 649 | (28.8) | |
| ≥75 year | 362 480 | (26.5) | 383 986 | (27.0) | 641 872 | (27.7) | |
| Marital status | <0.001 | ||||||
| Married/de facto | 691 549 | (50.5) | 720 248 | (50.6) | 1 179 886 | (50.9) | |
| Never married | 213 168 | (15.6) | 222 279 | (15.6) | 374 129 | (16.1) | |
| Widowed | 306 753 | (22.4) | 316 289 | (22.2) | 491 515 | (21.2) | |
| Divorced/separated | 132 082 | (9.6) | 146 002 | (10.2) | 250 895 | (10.8) | |
| Unknown | 26 753 | (2.0) | 19 797 | (1.4) | 22 825 | (1.0) | |
| Country of birth | <0.001 | ||||||
| Australian and New Zealand | 987 752 | (72.1) | 1 011 171 | (71.0) | 1 623 448 | (70.0) | |
| UK, USA and Canada | 72 571 | (5.3) | 74 564 | (5.2) | 116 788 | (5.0) | |
| Non-English Europe | 111 220 | (8.1) | 119 760 | (8.4) | 193 152 | (8.3) | |
| North Africa and Middle East | 47 544 | (3.5) | 54 431 | (3.8) | 90 559 | (3.9) | |
| Asia | 95 799 | (7.0) | 107 517 | (7.5) | 191 022 | (8.2) | |
| Others | 46 686 | (3.4) | 50 612 | (3.6) | 94 214 | (4.1) | |
| Unknown | 8733 | (0.6) | 6560 | (0.5) | 10 067 | (0.4) | |
| SEIFA* | <0.001 | ||||||
| First quartile | 430 045 | (31.4) | 448 612 | (31.5) | 726 292 | (31.3) | |
| Second quartile | 377 729 | (27.6) | 396 914 | (27.9) | 651 454 | (28.1) | |
| Third quartile | 324 898 | (23.7) | 337 473 | (23.7) | 550 908 | (23.8) | |
| Fourth quartile (most advantaged) | 217 618 | (15.9) | 227 230 | (16.0) | 375 204 | (16.2) | |
| Unknown | 20 015 | (1.5) | 14 386 | (1.0) | 15 392 | (0.7) | |
| Residence area | 0.463 | ||||||
| Metropolitan | 848 279 | (62.8) | 889 977 | (63.1) | 1 464 587 | (63.6) | |
| Rural and regional | 478 856 | (35.5) | 496 026 | (35.2) | 799 406 | (34.7) | |
| Other areas outside New South Wales | 23 405 | (1.7) | 24 376 | (1.7) | 39 671 | (1.7) | |
| Private health insurance | 0.275 | ||||||
| No private insurance | 1 044 064 | (78.4) | 972 078 | (76.5) | 1 667 897 | (75.3) | |
| Full cover | 133 994 | (10.1) | 135 225 | (10.6) | 249 231 | (11.3) | |
| Basic cover | 122 533 | (9.2) | 135 289 | (10.7) | 253 691 | (11.5) | |
| Unknown | 31 527 | (2.4) | 27 362 | (2.2) | 43 827 | (2.0) | |
| Hospital peer group† | 0.007 | ||||||
| A | 659 938 | (48.2) | 691 073 | (48.5) | 1 115 410 | (48.1) | |
| B | 391 322 | (28.6) | 415 597 | (29.2) | 696 619 | (30.0) | |
| C | 224 791 | (16.4) | 224 755 | (15.8) | 367 764 | (15.9) | |
| D | 45 346 | (3.3) | 42 250 | (3.0) | 62 558 | (2.7) | |
| F | 48 908 | (3.6) | 50 940 | (3.6) | 76 899 | (3.3) | |
*SEIFA: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas developed by Australian Bureau of Statistics.
†A: Principal Referral Group: Acute hospitals, treating 25 000 or more acute casemix weighted separations per annum, with an average cost weight greater than 1. B: Major hospitals: Acute hospitals, treating 10 000 or more acute casemix weighted separations per annum, but having less than 25 000 acute casemix weighted separations or an average casemix weight of less than 1; or Acute hospitals treating 10 000 or more acute casemix weighted separations per annum that are located in rural areas providing acute specialist and referral services for a catchment population from a large geographical area. C: District Group: Acute hospitals, treating 2000 or more, but less than 10 000 acute casemix weighted separations per annum. D: Hospitals treating less than 2000 acute casemix weighted separations per annum. F: All other public health facilities including the subacute and residential care facilities.