Table 1

Demographic characteristics of household members and road traffic injury victims in Baghdad, Iraq from 2003 to 2014

TotalRoad traffic injuriesORsaORs
N=5148n (%)OR (95% CI)aOR (95% CI)
Injured55386 (16)
Sex
 Female256922 (1)ReferentReferent
 Male257964 (3)2.95 (1.81 to 4.80)1.95 (0.94 to 4.07)
Age
 ≤15 years178917 (1)ReferentReferent
 16–64 years313164 (2)2.18 (1.27 to 3.72)1.46 (0.55 to 3.85)
 ≥65 years2285 (2)2.34 (0.85 to 6.40)0.92 (0.16 to 5.21)
Education among injured
 None10214 (14)Referent
 Any primary26145 (17)1.31 (0.68 to 2.51)
 Completed at least secondary19027 (14)1.04 (0.51 to 2.09)
Marital status of injured
 Never married23846 (19)ReferentReferent
 Married29236 (12)0.59 (0.37 to 0.94)0.35 (0.14 to 0.86)
 Divorced, separated, widowed234 (17)0.88 (0.29 to 2.71)1.06 (0.20 to 5.64)
Occupation of injured
 Student10611 (10)Referent
 Employed15714 (9)0.53 (0.27 to 1.03)
 Farmer9715 (16)0.99 (0.50 to 1.96)
 Unemployed, retired, homemaker1398 (6)0.53 (0.26 to 1.06)
 Other546 (11)0.66 (0.27 to 1.61)
  • ORs were adjusted for gender, age and marital status (ie, variables with evidence for a relationship with RTI from bivariate analysis) using a two-level mixed-effects logit link function to control for intraclass correlation among clusters and within households.

  • aOR, adjusted OR.