Table 3

Frequency distribution of unintentional injury mortality by specific death causes (ICD-10) among refugees and immigrants compared with their Danish-born controls. Analyses are based on data from 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2007

Unintentional injury typesRefugeesImmigrants
FemaleControlMaleControlFemaleControlMaleControl
% (n)% (n)% (n)% (n)% (n)% (n)% (n)% (n)
Falls10 (1)15 (12)7 (3)7 (20)20 (2)9 (7)18 (2)9 (14)
Traffic injuries40 (4)30 (25)58 (23)34 (89)40 (4)34 (28)27 (3)28 (43)
Poisoning0 (0)23 (19)10 (4)25 (69)10 (1)28 (23)18 (2)28 (44)
Other causes50 (5)32 (27)25 (10)34 (92)30 (3)29 (22)37 (4)35 (54)
Total100% (10)100% (83)100% (40)100% (270)100% (10)100% (82)100% (11)100% (155)
p Value*0.64 0.03 0.38 0.66
  • * The p value is estimated by a χ2 test and shows whether differences in all unintentional injury types between respectively migrants and their controls were significant or not.

  • ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision.