Table 13.3

Acute sickness, by minority ethnic group

Aged 2-15							1999
Acute sickness	Minority ethnic group						General population (1997)
	Black
	Caribbean	Indian	Pakistani	Bangladeshi	Chinese	Irish
Boys
Observed %
Had acute sickness	10	9	10	5	6	12	14
1-3 days	5	6	6	3	4	8	8
4-6 days	2	1	1	0	2	2	3
7-13 days	2	1	1	0	1	1	2
a full 2 weeks	1	1	2	1	0	1	1
No acute sickness	90	91	90	95	94	88	86
Mean number of days	0.47	0.38	0.45	0.17	0.23	0.46	0.58
Standard error of the mean	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.06	0.09	0.11	0.03
Risk ratios
Had acute sickness	0.74	0.64	0.69	0.32	0.46	0.86	1
Standard error	0.13	0.13	0.11	0.08	0.15	0.15
Girls
Observed %
Had acute sickness	11	6	7	6	5	14	14
1-3 days	6	4	5	3	2	8	8
4-6 days	2	1	1	1	0	2	3
7-13 days	2	1	1	2	3	2	2
a full 2 weeks	1	1	0	0	0	2	1
No acute sickness	89	94	93	94	95	86	86
Mean number of days	0.44	0.26	0.25	0.35	0.26	0.71	0.62
Standard error of the mean	0.10	0.10	0.06	0.09	0.11	0.15	0.03
Risk ratios
Had acute sickness	0.74	0.44	0.48	0.42	0.35	0.97	1
Standard error	0.13	0.12	0.09	0.09	0.14	0.15
							m
Bases (weighted):
Boys	207	275	243	106	43	852	a
Girls	217	209	244	98	42	894	a
Bases (unweighted):
Boys	300	268	397	385	138	270	3485
Girls	312	203	392	357	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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