Table 3.

Distribution of HBeAg positive subjects among HBsAg positive persons

	1995		1996		1997		1998		1999
	Total	HBsAg (+) (%)	Total	HBsAg (+) (%)	Total	HBsAg (+) (%)	Total	HBsAg (+) (%)	Total	HBsAg (+) (%)
Sum	7,597	2,910 (38.3)	6,500	2,800 (43.1)	6,631	2,878 (43.4)	9,698	3,857 (39.8)	6,410	2,034 (31.7)
6–19	1,599	636 (39.8)	2,980	1,876 (62.9)	3,500	2,059 (58.3)	4,853	2,619 (53.9)	2,739	1,362 (49.7)
20–29	1,862	924 (49.6)	919	352 (38.3)	1,115	384 (34.4)	1,068	411 (38.5)	957	407 (42.5)
30–39	2,500	921 (36.8)	1,179	332 (28.2)	923	244 (26.4)	1,615	459 (28.4)	1,099	311 (28.3)
40–49	1,492	374 (25.1)	938	163 (17.4)	639	108 (16.9)	1,207	218 (18.1)	892	163 (18.3)
50–59	390	41 (10.5)	356	55 (15.4)	358	50 (13.9)	663	100 (15.1)	490	58 (11.8)
> 60	114	14 (12.3)	128	22 (17.2)	96	33 (34.4)	292	50 (17.1)	233	13 (5.6)