Annualized rate of recreational injury episodes among children aged 6–17 years by selected sociodemographics: US, 1997–98
| Rate* per 1000 children (standard error) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | Girls | |||||
| Characteristic | Sample size† | All | 6–10 years | 11–17 years | 6–10 years | 11–17 years |
| *Refers to weighted episode rate; †unweighted sample size; ‡excluded 26 unknown cases; §excluded 115 unknown cases; ¶excluded 1366 unknown cases. ** Rate not shown because the relative standard error (standard error of the estimate ) estimate) is greater than 30%. | ||||||
| Data source: the 1997–98 National Health Interview Surveys. | ||||||
| Total | 38458 | 91.2 (3.4) | 89.5 (7.3) | 132.7 (8.3) | 53.0 (5.4) | 77.2 (6.4) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Hispanic | 10495 | 52.4 (5.7) | 60.1 (12.7) | 62.8 (10.9) | 36.1 (8.7) | 48.2 (12.5) |
| Non-Hispanic white | 20123 | 112.1 (4.8) | 109.8 (12.2) | 163.5 (11.5) | 61.1 (7.4) | 96.4 (8.7) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 6335 | 51.5 (6.0) | 41.8 (11.2) | 86.4 (13.5) | 31.3 (9.2) | 38.9 (9.8) |
| Non-Hispanic other | 1505 | 40.5(10.8) | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| Living with parent‡ | ||||||
| With mother only | 9215 | 65.0 (5.7) | 63.7 (13.0) | 78.4 (12.6) | 46.6 (10.5) | 66.3 (11.6) |
| With father only | 1223 | 97.4(20.5) | 176.6 (65.9) | 143.2 (37.8) | ** | ** |
| With both parents | 26507 | 100.9 (4.5) | 97.1 (8.8) | 149.4 (10.5) | 58.2 (6.9) | 85.0 (7.9) |
| With others | 1487 | 54.4(14.3) | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| Health insurance§ | ||||||
| No insurance | 6049 | 40.4 (6.2) | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| With insurance | 32294 | 98.5 (3.8) | 93.8 (8.1) | 143.2 (9.3) | 58.2 (6.0) | 85.3 (7.2) |
| Family income status | ||||||
| Poor | 6805 | 51.8 (8.6) | 56.2 (16.3) | 65.4 (14.8) | 23.3 (7.8) | ** |
| Near poor | 7170 | 80.4 (7.1) | 85.6 (15.8) | 110.4 (16.7) | 49.3 (11.8) | 69.0 (12.6) |
| Not poor | 16586 | 118.7 (5.6) | 112.1 (12.1) | 170.6 (13.0) | 71.4 (10.0) | 101.8 (10.0) |
| Unknown | 7897 | 60.3 (6.5) | 64.7 (12.9) | 98.6 (14.7) | 35.1 (9.6) | 34.4 (8.4) |
| Highest education of adults in a family¶, (years) | ||||||
| <12 | 6025 | 54.2 (8.7) | ** | 70.0 (15.8) | 22.7 (10.1) | ** |
| 12–15 | 21714 | 91.1 (4.5) | 101.1 (10.7) | 132.5 (11.5) | 48.0 (6.4) | 71.0 (7.2) |
| 16+ | 9353 | 111.7 (7.3) | 90.1 (14.2) | 159.9 (16.4) | 76.9 (13.5) | 104.2 (13.0) |
| Rural/urban residence | ||||||
| Rural | 9608 | 91.0 (7.1) | 71.0 (12.6) | 137.2 (14.0) | 50.7 (10.8) | 83.4 (13.8) |
| Urban | 28850 | 91.2 (4.2) | 96.7 (9.0) | 130.6 (10.1) | 53.8 (6.7) | 74.5 (7.3) |