Employment categories, criteria/definition, and frequency of study sample (n = 3678), HEALF emergency department based injury surveillance system, Managua, Nicaragua, 2001–02
| Category | Criteria/definition | No (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Surveys missing occupation = 123. | ||
| Home based worker | All responses recorded as “Ama de casa” | 772 (21) |
| Farm worker | Working in the fields or with cattle | 211 (6) |
| Construction | Working in construction industry—for example, mason, painters, carpenters, and occupations recorded as “construction” | 439 (12) |
| Transport operators | Only occupations on the road—for example, car, taxi, bus drivers, and driver assistants | 254 (7) |
| Sales occupations | Purchase and sale of goods in stores, restaurants, warehouses | 279 (8) |
| Public/personal services | Personal services, business services, auto repair, health and educational services, public service | 836 (23) |
| Manufacturing | Making durable and non-durable goods and occupations recorded as “machine operator” | 108 (3) |
| Finance, business | Lawyer, business administrators/owners, professional engineers, self employed | 107 (3) |
| Underemployed | “None” reported but documented activity while injured was “working”, all “students”, and “retired” | 617 (17) |
| Undetermined | All responses with incomplete or misspelled occupations or recorded only as “helper or assistant” or “don’t know” | 55 (2) |