National estimates and rates per 100 000 population of non-fatal firearm related injuries* other than gunshot wounds treated in hospital emergency departments, by sex, race, age, and injury intent: United States, 1993–96
| Intent of injury | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Unintentional | Assault | |||||||
| Characteristic | No (%) | Rate | 95% CI | No (%) | Rate | 95% CI | No (%) | Rate | 95% CI |
| CI = confidence interval. | |||||||||
| *Excludes injuries sustained during military training. | |||||||||
| †These rates may be unstable due to low sample size (less than 25 sample cases) and/or a coefficient of variation >28%. | |||||||||
| ‡This estimate has a negative lower bound on the 95% CI due to instability based on small sample size. | |||||||||
| §Percentages may not sum to 100.0 due to rounding. | |||||||||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 52 658 (80.5) | 10.3 | 8.4 to 12.3 | 23 223 (85.8) | 4.5 | 3.6 to 5.5 | 28 371 (76.7) | 5.6 | 3.9 to 7.2 |
| Female | 12 716 (19.5) | 2.4 | 1.8 to 3.0 | 3 837 (14.2) | 0.7 | 0.5 to 0.9 | 8 609 (23.3) | 1.6 | 1.1 to 2.1 |
| Race | |||||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 32 760 (50.1) | 4.3 | 3.4 to 5.2 | 20 779 (76.8) | 2.7 | 2.0 to 3.5 | 11 501 (31.1) | 1.5 | 1.0 to 2.0 |
| Black | 17 632 (27.0) | 13.4 | 8.7 to 18.1 | 1 506 (5.6) | 1.1 | 0.6 to 1.7 | 15 782 (42.7) | 12.0 | 7.6 to 16.4 |
| Hispanic | 4 940† (7.6) | 4.7 | 1.5 to 7.8 | 223† (0.8) | 0.2 | −0.2 to 0.6‡ | 4 621† (12.5) | 4.4 | 1.3 to 7.4 |
| Other/not stated | 10 042 (15.4) | — | — | 4 552 (16.8) | — | — | 5 076 (13.7) | — | — |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| 0–14 | 4 142 (6.3) | 1.8 | 1.2 to 2.4 | 3 172 (11.7) | 1.4 | 0.9 to 1.9 | 902 (2.4) | 0.4 | 0.1 to 0.6 |
| 15–24 | 20 411 (31.2) | 14.1 | 10.8 to 17.5 | 5 905 (21.8) | 4.1 | 2.9 to 5.3 | 14 069 (38.0) | 9.7 | 6.9 to 12.6 |
| 25–34 | 19 654 (30.1) | 11.9 | 9.1 to 14.8 | 7 734 (28.6) | 4.7 | 3.5 to 5.9 | 11 576 (31.3) | 7.0 | 4.7 to 9.4 |
| 35–44 | 11 037 (16.9) | 6.6 | 4.9 to 8.2 | 4 056 (15.0) | 2.4 | 1.6 to 3.2 | 6 556 (17.7) | 3.9 | 2.5 to 5.3 |
| 45+ | 10 112 (15.5) | 3.0 | 2.3 to 3.7 | 6 193 (22.9) | 1.8 | 1.2 to 2.4 | 3 859 (10.4) | 1.1 | 0.7 to 1.5 |
| Unspecified | 18† (0.0) | — | — | 0 (0) | — | — | 18† (0.0) | — | — |
| Total§ | 65 374 (100.0) | 6.3 | 5.1 to 7.5 | 27 060 (100.0) | 2.6 | 2.0 to 3.1 | 36 980 (100.0) | 3.5 | 2.5 to 4.6 |