Table 1

Characteristics of children aged ≤16 years with an injury-related hospitalisation by gender, linked hospitalisation and mortality data, Australia, 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2012

	Males (n=4 36 865)		Females (n=2 49 536)		Total* (n=6 86 409)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Age group (years)†
<1	13 105	3.0	10 672	4.3	23 777	3.5
1–5	122 965	28.1	88 813	35.6	211 781	30.9
6–10	101 814	23.3	67 823	27.2	169 638	24.7
11–16	198 980	45.5	82 228	33.0	281 212	41.0
Jurisdiction hospitalised‡
Australian Capital Territory	5917	1.4	3080	1.2	8997	1.3
New South Wales	144 219	33.0	79 391	31.8	223 616	32.6
Northern Territory	6875	1.6	4193	1.7	11 070	1.6
Queensland	112 324	25.7	64 661	25.9	176 985	25.8
South Australia	29 776	6.8	18 259	7.3	48 035	7.0
Tasmania	7241	1.7	4470	1.8	11 711	1.7
Victoria	82 564	18.9	48 139	19.3	130 703	19.0
Western Australia	47 949	11.0	27 343	11.0	75 292	11.0
Number of health conditions
No child health conditions	417 934	95.7	232 150	93.0	650 091	94.7
One child health condition	16 422	3.8	14 530	5.8	30 953	4.5
≥Two child health conditions	2509	0.6	2856	1.1	5365	0.8
Location of residence
Urban	305 744	70.0	174 959	70.1	480 705	70.0
Regional/remote	128 115	29.3	72 748	29.2	200 869	29.3
Not known	3006	0.7	1829	0.7	4835	0.7
Injury severity
Minor (ICISS≤0.99)	263 459	60.3	156 650	62.8	420 111	61.2
Moderate (ICISS 0.942–0.99)	141 287	32.3	77 351	31.0	218 641	31.9
Serious (ICISS<0.942)	32 119	7.4	15 535	6.2	47 656	6.9

*Gender missing for eight children.
†Age missing for one child.
‡Data only available from Australian Capital Territory from 1 July 2004 and Victorian child injury hospitalisations likely to include up to an additional 3975 hospitalisations per year.
ICISS, International Classification of Disease ISS.