| Environmental factor | Percentage prevalence of symptoms in children in each environmental group | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total no. | Wheeze | Speech limiting wheeze | Wheeze without colds | Rhinitis, itchy eyes |
Spring/ summer rhinitis | Cough without colds | Phlegm with colds | Phlegm without colds | >3 colds per year |
Dry night cough without colds | |
| Housing | |||||||||||
| Owned | 18338 | 33.5 | 8.3 | 21.2 | 17.9 | 6.7 | 27.2 | 62.0 | 19.7 | 26.3 | 43.7 |
| Council | 5059 | 34.4 | 10.0 | 22.1 | 20.6 | 5.8 | 36.2 | 58.3 | 26.3 | 30.1 | 50.6 |
| Other rented | 1013 | 34.9 | 9.7 | 21.5 | 21.4 | 7.4 | 32.7 | 63.2 | 23.2 | 27.9 | 47.0 |
| Other | 983 | 36.5 | 11.0 | 22.5 | 20.3 | 5.9 | 32.8 | 58.9 | 22.2 | 30.5 | 48.8 |