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. 2022 Jun 13;28:101860. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101860

Table 4.

Residential fire-related incidents that resulted in health service utilisation in social housing dwellings and non-social housing dwellings based on residents' demographics from 2005 to 2014, NSW, Australia.

N* = 2,388
Residential fire-related incidents
Social housing vs non-social housing
Demographic Characteristics Social
Non-social
Total
RR 95%CI
N % N % N %
Gender
Female 133 41.8 767 37.1 900 37.7 1.19 0.96 – 1.46
Male 115 36.2 816 39.4 931 39.0 0.89 0.71 – 1.09
Undetermined 70 22.0 487 23.5 557 23.3 0.93 0.72 – 1.18
Age
<25 20 6.3 169 8.2 189 7.9 0.78 0.49 – 1.16
25–65 183 57.6 990 47.8 1,173 49.1 1.40 1.14 – 1.73*
65+ 43 13.5 414 20.0 456 19.1 0.66 0.48 – 0.89*
Undetermined 72 22.6 497 24.0 569 23.8 0.94 0.73 – 1.19

Significance (p value) = * < 0.01, ** < 0.001, *** < 0.0001.