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Table 4 Demographic, social and economic factors associated with receiving compensation for work-related injury or other disease

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

Factor

Total

Received compensation

n (%)

Bivariate

OR (95%cCI)

Multivariate

AOR (95%CI)

Age (years)

< 15

166

4 (2.4)

1

-

15-19

489

15 (3.1)

0.79 (0.50, 1.25)

 

20-24

1127

44 (3.9)

1.01 (0.73, 1.41)

 

25-34

3109

195 (6.3)

1.66 (1.28, 2.16)

 

35+

4709

223 (4.7)

1.24 (0.96, 1.60)

 

Gender

Female

4122

85 (2.1)

1

1

Male

5478

396 (7.2)

1.92 (1.71, 2.17)

1.52 (1.22, 1.90)

Current marital status

Never married

1343

84 (6.3)

1

-

Married/cohabiting

6770

349 (5.2)

1.10 (0.96, 1.27)

 

Separated/divorced/widowed

1414

45 (3.2)

0.67 (0.54, 0.83)

 

Province

Western

605

23 (3.8)

1

1

Copperbelt

1397

197 (14.1)

4.04 (3.39, 4.83)

2.32 (1.77, 3.05)

Eastern

612

30 (4.9)

1.27 (0.90, 1.79)

1.25 (0.75, 2.09)

Luapula

1621

35 (2.2)

0.54 (0.40, 0.75)

0.63 (0.35, 1.14)

Lusaka

798

85 (10.7)

2.94 (2.33, 3.70)

1.31 (0.89, 1.93)

Northern

1416

19 (1.3)

0.34 (0.22, 0.51)

0.67 (0.40, 1.12)

North-Western

1265

39 (3.1)

0.78 (0.58, 1.06)

1.64 (1.03, 2.61)

Southern

1018

33 (3.2)

0.83 (0.59, 1.15)

0.70 (0.44, 1.11)

Central

868

20 (2.3)

0.58 (0.39, 0.87)

0.79 (0.41, 1.52)

Current employment status

Unpaid family worker

2401

39 (1.6)

1

1

Paid employee

1716

299 (17.4)

4.84 (4.17, 5.60)

3.46 (2.59, 4.62)

Employer/self employed

5236

122 (2.3)

0.55 (0.46, 0.65)

0.64 (0.48, 0.84)

Number of employees in a workplace

5+

2379

272 (11.4)

1

1

< 5

6970

189 (2.7)

0.47 (0.42, 0.51)

0.75 (0.63, 0.89)

Employer

Central government

277

38 (13.7)

1

-

Local government/Council

56

8 (14.5)

1.07 (0.54, 2.11)

 

Parastatal/State owned firm

74

16 (21.6)

1.73 (1.01, 2.95)

 

Private

1879

239 (12.7)

0.91 (0.69, 1.21)

 

NGO or Church

37

5 (13.5)

0.98 (0.42, 2.26)

 

International organization

12

5 (-)

4.47 (1.64, 12.20)

 

Household

7043

150 (2.1)

0.14 (0.10, 0.18)

 
  1. * Confidence interval does not include 1
  2. NGO - Non Governmental Organization
  3. (-) Percent not reported because denominator is less than 30