There is geographical variation in uptake of screening at health board and local authority level.
There is a social gradient in uptake of screening across all the adult screening programmes. People living in the most deprived communities in Wales were less likely to take up their offer of screening compared to those living in the least deprived communities.
For programmes that invite people across age groups there is an inequity in uptake of screening offer with people in younger age groups less likely to take up their offer of screening than people in older age groups.
For programmes that invite all genders to participate in screening there is an inequity of uptake with men less likely to take up their offer than women, though the inequity gap is small.
For programmes where people are invited more than once, people who have previously attended are more likely to respond to subsequent invitations.