Table MSDSIZE2 - 2005/06
Estimated prevalence and rates of self-reported musculoskeletal disorders 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)$ | 224 | 201 | 246 | 1430 | 1290 | 1570 |
| Medium (50-249 employees) | 90 | 76 | 103 | 1510 | 1280 | 1750 |
| Large (250+ employees) | 98 | 84 | 112 | 1500 | 1280 | 1720 |
| Missing/unknown | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job) | 419 | 389 | 449 | 1430 | 1330 | 1540 |
| Other job caused illness, workplace size unknown# | 128 | 111 | 144 | .. | .. | .. |
| Total (illness ascribed to any job) | 546 | 512 | 581 | 1870 | 1750 | 1990 |
Notes:
.. Not applicable
$ Includes those who are self employed on their own or with partners who have no employees.
+ 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.
Individuals who gave the response 'Don't know but between 50 and 499' have been coded as missing/unknown.
- Definitions and data reliability.
- Tables are available for earlier years, but rates are presented as 'rates per 100 workers'.