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Table 4 Comparison of Ten to Men participants with 2011 Census data for males age 10–55 in Major Cities, Inner Regional and Outer Regional RAs

Characteristic	Ten to men %^a n = 15,988	2011 census % N = 6,472,834
Age
10–19	17.1	21.3
20–29	17.6	22.2
30–39	23.1	22.8
40–49	26.8	22.2
50–55	15.5	12.5
Australian born	77.7	69.2
Indigenous origin	2.8	2.2
Region
Major City	57.6	74
Inner Regional	22.7	16.9
Outer Regional	19.6	9.1
Socio-economic Disadvantage (SEIFA^b)
1st Quintile	19.1	18.3
2nd Quintile	18.6	19.5
3rd Quintile	22.4	20.1
4th Quintile	20.3	20.5
5th Quintile	19.5	20.9

^a all proportions based on unweighted frequency counts
^b Australian Bureau of Statistics, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas - Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD). This is general socio-economic index produced from census data summarising range of indicators of economic and social disadvantage [32]. Lower IRSD scores indicate greater disadvantage

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