Table 1.

Deaths from injury and poisoning and rates per year per 100 000 children aged 0-15 years by eight class NS-SEC, 2001-3

NS-SEC	Deaths 2001-3†	Rate (95% CI) per year per 100 000 children
1: Higher managerial/professional occupations	85	1.9 (1.6 to 2.4)
2: Lower managerial/professional occupations	111	1.6 (1.3 to 1.9)
3: Intermediate occupations	59	2.9 (2.2 to 3.7)
4: Small employers/own account workers	105	2.9 (2.4 to 3.5)
5: Lower supervisory/technical occupations	91	2.7 (2.2 to 3.3)
6: Semi-routine occupations	148	4.0 (3.4 to 4.7)
7: Routine occupations	180	5.0 (4.3 to 5.8)
8: Never worked/long term unemployed	383	25.4 (22.9 to 28.1)
Total	1162	4.0 (3.8 to 4.2)

NS-SEC=National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification.

^†Excludes one child for whom NS-SEC was missing