Abstract
(Received December 1995; in revised form December 1996) SENIOR M. L. (1998) Area variations in self-perceived limiting long term illness in Britain, 1991; is the Welsh experience exceptional?, Reg. Studies 32, 265-280. The relatively high prevalence of limiting long term illness (LLTI) in Wales compared with England and Scotland is examined and largely confirmed at a variety of geographical scales. In addition, an analysis of gender differentials in age standardized LLTI ratios reveals that it is much more common in Wales for male LLTI ratios to exceed female ones. Normal theory and Poisson regressions are used to model statistically age-gender standardized LLTI at a small area level throughout the whole of Britain. Potential explanatory variables, obtained from Censuses of Population, include: current and former employment in the coal industry; unskilled and semi-skilled manual occupations as a proxy for life style; a range of deprivation measures designed to reflect lack of wealth and relatively poor ho...
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