Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of active female firefighter survey respondents in the US and Canada, by injury severity as measured by time of work lost.
| Entire sample (n = 1,160) |
All injuries (n = 742) |
No injuries (n = 418) |
<2 weeks work losta (n = 494) | 2–4 weeks work lost (n = 106) | >4 weeks work lost (n = 285) |
Life threatening (n = 15) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| Country of residence | |||||||
| USA | 772 (67) | 554 (75) | 218 (52) | 353 (71) | 77 (73) | 238 (84) | 13 (87) |
| Canada | 388 (33) | 188 (25) | 200 (48) | 141 (29) | 29 (27) | 47 (16) | * |
| Sex, gender | |||||||
| Female, female | 1153 (99) | 736 (99) | 417 (99) | 488 (99) | 106 (100) | 285 (100) | 15 (100) |
| Female, male | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Female, non-binary | * | * | 0 (0) | * | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Male, female | * | * | * | * | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | |
| Age (years) | 40.5 (9.6) | 42.5 (9.1) | 36.9 (9.3) | 41.7 (9.3) | 45.2 (7.3) | 44.9 (8.7) | 50.4 (7.4) |
| Height (cm) | 168.4 (7.5) | 168.5 (7.2) | 168.0 (6.4) | 168.3 (7.0) | 169.2 (6.5) | 168.7 (7.1) | 167.8 (7.3) |
| Weight (kg) | 74.1 (13.6) | 75.7 (14.2) | 71.4 (11.5) | 74.3 (13.1) | 77.3 (14.8) | 78.4 (15.0) | 72.4 (12.6) |
| Body Mass Index (BMI) | 26.1 (4.6) | 26.7 (4.8) | 25.2 (4.1) | 26.3 (4.4) | 27.0 (5.2) | 27.6 (4.9) | 25.5 (3.0) |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| Used tobacco | 289 (25) | 196 (26) | 93 (22) | 126 (26) | 20 (19) | 78 (27) | * |
| Consumed alcohol | 1,057 (91) | 690 (93) | 367 (88) | 466 (94) | 101 (95) | 259 (91) | 13 (87) |
a
Includes injuries that were reported only, received first aid only, treated by a doctor only, and those that missed <2 weeks of work.
*
Fewer than 5 respondents.