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Table 3 Demographic, social and economic factors associated with serious injuries sustained at workplace

From: Compensation patterns following occupational injuries in Zambia: results from the 2009 Labour Survey

Factor

Total

Suffered

serious injury

n (%)

Bivariate

OR* (95%cCI)

Multivariate

AOR** (95%CI)

Age (years)

5-9

630

12 (1.9)

1

-

10-14

1566

41 (2.6)

0.76 (0.58, 1.01)

 

15-19

5155

153 (3.0)

0.87 (0.73, 1.03)

 

20-24

9125

323 (3.5)

1.04 (0.90, 1.20)

 

25-34

19188

991 (5.2)

1.54 (1.36, 1.75)

 

35+

26213

1498 (5.7)

1.72 (1.52, 1.94)

 

Gender

Female

31393

1131 (3.6)

1

1

Male

30478

1887 (6.2)

1.33 (1.28, 1.38)

1.27 (1.21, 1.33)

Current marital status

Never married

12736

416 (3.3)

1

1

Married/cohabiting

39919

2147 (5.4)

1.19 (1.13, 1.26)

1.11 (1.05, 1.17)

Separated/divorced/widowed

8064

430 (5.3)

1.18 (1.10, 1.27)

1.27 (1.17, 1.38)

Province

Western

6128

241 (3.9)

1

1

Copperbelt

8455

489 (5.8)

1.23 (1.12, 1.34)

1.13 (1.02, 1.24)

Eastern

8723

197 (2.3)

0.46 (0.41, 0.53)

0.49 (0.43, 0.56)

Luapula

6083

507 (8.3)

1.82 (1.67, 1.99)

1.90 (1.73, 2.08)

Lusaka

6264

230 (3.7)

0.76 (0.68, 0.86)

0.70 (0.62, 0.81)

Northern

8168

449 (5.5)

1.17 (1.06, 1.28)

1.20 (1.09, 1.32)

North-Western

4049

337 (8.3)

1.82 (1.64, 2.02)

1.81 (1.62, 2.02)

Southern

8080

307 (3.8)

0.79 (0.71, 0.88)

0.77 (0.69, 0.86)

Central

5929

261 (4.4)

0.82 (0.73, 0.92)

0.90 (0.80, 1.02)

Current employment status

Unpaid family worker

21272

693 (3.3)

1

1

Paid employee

9770

581 (5.9)

1.22 (1.15, 1.30)

1.27 (1.15, 1.40)

Employer/self employed

27521

1686 (6.1)

1.26 (1.20, 1.33)

1.02 (0.96, 1.09)

Number of employees in a workplace

5+

14416

774 (5.4)

1

-

< 5

44064

2189 (5.0)

0.96 (0.92, 1.00)

 

Employer

Central government

2402

62 (2.6)

1

1

Local government/Council

321

19 (5.9)

1.38 (0.87, 2.18)

1.27 (0.80, 2.01)

Parastatal/State owned firm

424

27 (6.4)

1.49 (0.99, 2.23)

1.33 (0.89, 2.01)

Private

642

642 (6.7)

1.57 (1.22, 2.00)

1.61 (1.25, 2.07)

NGO or Church

351

12 (3.4)

0.78 (0.45, 1.33)

0.82 (0.47, 1.44)

International organization

72

2 (2.8)

0.63 (0.19, 2.10)

0.60 (0.18, 2.03)

Household

2199

2199 (4.8)

1.11 (0.87, 1.41)

1.42 (1.09, 1.85)

  1. * OR Odds ratios
  2. ** AOR Adjusted Odds ratio
  3. NGO - Non Governmental Organization