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Table 5 Rate of hospitalizing for injury among those who experienced an 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 (1 million KRW)

<5

13 (5.8)

212 (94.2)

0.1194

 

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

24 (2.6)

901 (97.4)

0.065

(1 million KRW)

50 - < 100

44 (3.0)

1,450 (97.1)

 
 

100 - < 200

42 (2.0)

2,078 (98.0)

 
 

200 - < 500

38 (1.8)

2,046 (98.2)

 
 

≥500

13 (1.5)

885 (98.6)

 

Education

≤Elementary

41 (3.0)

1,341 (97.0)

0.0382

 

Middle

25 (2.0)

1,257 (98.1)

 
 

High

126 (2.5)

4,998 (97.5)

 
 

≥University

73 (1.8)

3,968 (98.2)

 

Occupation

Manager, professional, and administrators

33 (1.8)

1,767 (98.2)

0.0006

 

Clerks

21 (1.8)

1,158 (98.2)

 
 

Service and sales workers

31 (1.6)

1,855 (98.4)

 
 

Skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers

17 (2.8)

593 (97.2)

 
 

Craft, equipment, machine operating, and assembling workers

55 (3.9)

1,358 (96.1)

 
 

Elementary workers

20 (2.1)

930 (97.9)

 
 

Unemployed

73 (2.3)

3,090 (97.7)

 
  1. *p value by chi-squared test.