Table WRISIZE2 - 2003/04
Estimated prevalence and rates of self-reported illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job, for small, medium and large workplaces, for people working in the last 12 months.
| Workplace size + | Illness ascribed to their current/most recent job | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample cases | Estimated prevalence (thousands) | Rate per 100 000 employed in the last 12 months | |||||
| central | 95% C.I. | central | 95% C.I. | ||||
| lower | upper | lower | upper | ||||
| Illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job | |||||||
| Small (less than 50 employees)~ | 1052 | 534 | 501 | 566 | 3390 | 3180 | 3590 |
| Medium (50-249 employees) | 491 | 248 | 225 | 270 | 4240 | 3870 | 4620 |
| Large (250+ employees) | 523 | 264 | 241 | 286 | 4240 | 3880 | 4610 |
| Missing/unknown | 54 | .. | .. | .. | |||
| All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job) | 2120 | 1071 | 1025 | 1118 | 3700 | 3550 | 3860 |
| Other job caused or made illness worse, workplace size unknown# | 531 | 269 | 246 | 292 | .. | .. | .. |
| Total (illness ascribed to any job) | 2651 | 1340 | 1288 | 1393 | 4630 | 4460 | 4810 |
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 are self employed on their own or with partners who have no employees.
# 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.
Individuals who gave the response 'Don't know but between 50 and 499' have been coded as missing/unknown.
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