Table 2.
Numbers and proportion of workforce filing a claim for occupational lung disease, by country of origin and certification outcome (N = 344,054).
| Country | Workforce | Claims filed |
Claims certified compensable | Claims certified non-compensable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (% of workforce) | Ever (% of country N) | Odds ratioa ever/never,b (95% CI) | n (% of country N) | n (% of country N) | Odds ratio compensable / non-compensable (95% CI)c | |
| South Africa | 149,136 (43.3%) | 25,204 (16.9%) | Reference | 16,236 (10.9%) | 8,968 (6.01%) | Reference |
| Lesotho | 62,312 (18.1%) | 13,779 (22.1%) | 1.40 (1.36, 1.43) | 10,802 (17.3%) | 2,977 (4.8%) | 2.00 (1.91, 2.10) |
| Mozambique | 26,301 (7.6%) | 3,280 (12.5%) | 0.70 (0.67, 0.73) | 2,368 (9.0%) | 912 (3.5%) | 1.43 (1.32, 1.55) |
| Eswatini | 8,233 (2.4%) | 1,148 (13.9%) | 0.80 (0.75, 0.85) | 831 (10.1%) | 317 (3.9%) | 1.45 (1.27, 1.65) |
| Botswana | 4,763 (1.4%) | 664 (13.9%) | 0.80 (0.73, 0.87) | 364 (7.6%) | 300 (6.3%) | 0.67 (0.57, 0.78) |
| Other | 1,649 (0.5%) | 37 (2.2%) | 0.11 (0.08, 0.16) | 21 (1.3%) | 16 (0.97%) | 0.72 (0.38, 1.39) |
| Unknown | 91,660 (26.6%) | 4,490 (4.8%) | 0.25 (0.25, 0.26) | 2,739 (3.0%) | 1,751 (12.8%) | 0.86 (0.81, 0.92) |
| Total | 344,054 (100%) | 48,602 (14.1%) | – | 33,361 | 15,241 | – |
CI, confidence interval.
a
Reference stratum South Africa.
b
Odds of an individual filing a claim versus never filing a claim.
c
Odds of an individual ever filing a compensable claim versus a non-compensable claim, or if filing multiple claims (n = 14,518 individuals), only ever filing non-compensable claim(s).