Table 1.

Fatal and non-fatal animal-related injury rates (per 100 000) by sociodemographic characteristics

Characteristics/variables	Total population (N %)	Fatal animal-related injury (n=8)		Non-fatal animal-related injury (n=9563)
		n=8	Rate/100 000/year (95% CI)	n=9563	Rate/100 000/year (95% CI)
Sex
Male	567 674 (48.5)	5	0.9 (0.4 to 2.1)	5215	1837.3 (1803.0 to 1873.0)
Female	601 919 (51.5)	3	0.5 (0.2 to 1.5)	4348	1444.7 (1415.0 to 1475.0)
Age group
<1 years	22 141 (1.9)	–	–	20	92.6 (59.8 to 143.5)
1–5 years	90 523 (7.7)	1	1.1 (0.2 to 6.3)	387	843.6 (763.9 to 931.9)
5–17 years	343 947 (29.4)	3	0.8 (0.3 to 2.6)	2619	1510.3 (1453.8 to 1569.1)
18 years and above	712 982 (60.9)	4	0.6 (0.2 to 1.4)	6537	1820.6 (1777.2 to 1865.1)
Level of education
No education	295 314 (25.3)	4	1.4 (0.5 to 3.5)	3344	1132.4 (1095.0 to 1171.0)
Primary	407 923 (34.9)	4	1.0 (0.4 to 2.5)	3701	907.3 (878.6 to 936.8)
Secondary and above	353 531 (30.2)	–	–	2110	1048.7 (1001.9 to 1097.3)
Not applicable (U5 children)	112 664 (9.6)	1	0.9 (0.2 to 5.0)	407	361.3 (327.5 to 398.5)
Occupation
Agriculture	104 956 (9.0)	2	1.9 (0.5 to 6.9)	1642	1564.5 (1491.0 to 1641.0)
Business	61 661 (5.3)	–	–	529	857.92 (788.1 to 933.8)
Skilled labour (professional)	89 151 (7.6)	–	–	494	554.1 (507.5 to 605.0)
Unskilled/domestic (unskilled)	24 520 (2.1)	–	–	227	925.8 (813.4 to 1054.0)
Rickshaw/bus (transport worker)	17 037 (1.5)	–	–	120	704.4 (589.4 to 841.5)
Students	312 537 (26.7)	2	0.6 (0.2 to 2.3)	2344	749.8 (720.3 to 780.8)
Retired/unemployed/housewife	408 583 (35.0)	1	0.2 (0.04 to 1.4)	3518	861.0 (833.2 to 889.8)
Children	144 454 (12.4)	1	0.7 (0.1 to 4.0)	621	429.9 (397.5 to 465.0)
Others	5948 (0.5)	2	33.6 (9.2 to 122.5)	65	1092.8 (858.4 to 1390.0)

U5, under-five.