Table 13.26

Annual accident rates per 100 children, by minority ethnic group

Aged 2-15							1999
Accident rates	Minority ethnic group						General population (1997)
	Black
	Caribbean	Indian	Pakistani	Bangladeshi	Chinese	Irish
Boys
Observed rates per 100 boys
Annual major accident rate	32	18	14	11	10	29	31
Standard error of the accident rate	5.6	3.9	3.2	2.7	4.1	5.7	1.4
Annual minor accident rate	149	84	52	20	149	117	221
Standard error of the accident rate	39.2	30.2	24.7	14.0	56.3	41.5	15.5
Ratios of rates
Annual major accident rate	1.05	0.59	0.47	0.35	0.32	0.95	1
Standard error of the ratio	0.19	0.13	0.11	0.09	0.14	0.19
Annual minor accident rate	0.68	0.38	0.23	0.09	0.67	0.53	1
Standard error of the ratio	0.18	0.14	0.11	0.06	0.26	0.19
Girls
Observed rates per 100 girls
Annual major accident rate	24	20	8	8	10	12	22
Standard error of the accident rate	4.3	4.6	1.9	2.5	3.9	2.9	1.2
Annual minor accident rate	240	57	12	5	71	252	154
Standard error of the accident rate	77.1	32.2	8.9	6.0	44.8	73.2	12.2
Ratios of rates
Annual major accident rate	1.08	0.92	0.34	0.37	0.47	0.54	1
Standard error of the ratio	0.20	0.22	0.09	0.12	0.18	0.14
Annual minor accident rate	1.56	0.37	0.08	0.03	0.46	1.64	1
Standard error of the ratio	0.52	0.21	0.06	0.04	0.30	0.49
Bases (weighted):
Boys	207	275	243	106	43	852	a
Girls	217	209	245	98	42	894	a
Bases (unweighted):
Boys	300	268	397	385	138	270	3485
Girls	312	203	393	358	126	265	3479

^a The 1997 general population data are weighted according to the weighting scheme for that year's survey. Weighted bases are not shown because they do not follow the 1999 weighting scheme.

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