Table MSDSIZE4 - 2003/04
Estimated incidence 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, 2004/05 and 2003/04
- 2004/05
- 2003/04
| Workplace size + | Illness ascribed to their current/most recent job | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample cases | Estimated incidence (thousands) | Rate per 100 employed in the last 12 months | |||||
| central | 95% C.I. | central | 95% C.I. | ||||
| lower | upper | lower | upper | ||||
| Small (less than 50 employees) # | 165 | 85 | 71 | 98 | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.62 |
| Medium (50-249 employees) | 88 | 46 | 36 | 56 | 0.78 | 0.62 | 0.95 |
| Large (250+ employees) | 64 | 33 | 25 | 41 | 0.53 | 0.40 | 0.66 |
| Missing/unknown | 12 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| All persons | 329 | 169 | 150 | 187 | 0.58 | 0.52 | 0.65 |
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.
- Individuals who gave the response 'Don't know but between 50 and 499' have been coded as missing/unknown.
- See section 2.8 and Appendix 3.2 in the 'Self-reported work-related illness in 2004/05' (SWI04/05) report for more details on incidence estimates and rates.
- The estimates in this table take account of revisions made to the Great Britain population estimates following the 2001 Census.