Table WRISIZE3 - 2001/02

Estimated incidence and rates of self-reported illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job, by workplace size, for people working in the last 12 months.

Number of people in workplace +	Illness ascribed to their current/most recent job
	Sample cases	Estimated incidence (thousands)			Rate per 100 000 employed in the last 12 months
		central	95% C.I.		central	95% C.I.
		central	lower	upper	central	lower	upper
Illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job
Self employed on own or with partners but no employees	86	40	31	48	1610	1260	1970

1-24 employees	297	138	122	153	1500	1330	1670
25+ employees	803	376	349	402	2250	2090	2410
Missing	2	..	..	..	..	..	..

1-49 employees	440	204	184	223	1640	1480	1790
50+ employees	625	293	269	316	2330	2150	2520
Missing	37	..	..	..	..	..	..

All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job)	1188	554	522	586	1940	1830	2060
Other job caused or made illness worse, workplace size unknown#	147	70	58	81	..	..	..
Total (illness ascribed to any job)	1335	624	589	658	2190	2070	2310

Notes:

.. Not applicable

+ Relates to the number of people at their workplace, which is not necessarily the same as the number of people working for the company.

# Includes those who did not answer the question identifying the job to which their illness was ascribed and those who said their illness was ascribed to a job other than their current or most recent in the last 12 months.

Definitions and data reliability

The estimates in this table take account of revisions made to the Great Britain population estimates following the 2001 Census.