Table.

Campylobacteriosis notification and hospitalization numbers and rates (average annual rate per 100 000), by season, rural–urban domicile, age group, sex, and ethnicity, 2001–2003, New Zealand

n.a., not applicable.

^*Number is the average annual number rounded to the nearest integer.

^†Rate is the average annual rate per 100 000 population.

^‡RR, Rate ratio calculated in relation to reference value in bold; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval calculated based on 3-year period.

^§Proportion hospitalized is based on recorded hospitalizations expressed as a percentage of number notified.

^¶Rates for ethnic groups were directly age standardized to the age distribution of the New Zealand population at the 2001 Census with confidence intervals calculated according to the methods used for age-standardized data [33].