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Table 4 Rate of emergency room or ambulatory care visits among those who experienced injury

From: The Relationship between Injury and Socioeconomic Status in Reference to the Fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Variables

Categories

Number (%)

p value*

  

Yes

No

 

Household income per year

<5

13 (5.8)

212 (94.2)

0.1801

(1 million KRW)

5 - < 10

38 (6.5)

548 (93.5)

 
 

10 - < 20

79 (4.4)

1716 (95.6)

 
 

20 - < 50

257 (4.5)

5454 (95.5)

 
 

≥50

117 (4.3)

2595 (95.7)

 

Home value

<50

40 (4.3)

885 (95.7)

0.474

(1 million KRW)

50 - < 100

71 (4.5)

1,423 (95.5)

 
 

100 - < 200

96 (4.8)

2,024 (95.3)

 
 

200 - < 500

94 (4.5)

1,990 (95.5)

 
 

≥500

29 (3.2)

869 (96.8)

 

Education

≤Elementary

72 (5.2)

1,310 (94.8)

0.0353

 

Middle

70 (5.5)

1,212 (94.5)

 
 

High

234 (4.6)

4,890 (95.4)

 
 

≥University

155 (3.8)

3,886 (96.2)

 

Occupation

Manager, professional, and administrators

73 (4.1)

1,727 (95.9)

0.0014

 

Clerks

57 (4.8)

1,122 (95.2)

 
 

Service and sales workers

85 (4.5)

1,801 (95.5)

 
 

Skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers

32 (5.3)

578 (94.8)

 
 

Craft, equipment, machine operating, and assembling workers

95 (6.7)

1,318 (93.3)

 
 

Elementary workers

51 (5.4)

899 (94.6)

 
 

Unemployed

121 (3.8)

3,042 (96.2)

 
  1. *p value by chi-squared test.