Table 10
Percentage who sustained at least one activity-limiting work- related injury in past year, by sex and selected characteristics, employed household population aged 18 to 75, Canada, 2003

	Men	Women
	%
Total	5.2^*	2.2
Age group
18 to 24^†	6.0	2.4
25 to 34	6.5^*	2.1
35 to 44	5.4	2.0
45 to 54	4.4^*	2.4
55 to 64	3.2^*	2.1
65 to 75	2.5^E ^*	F
Race
White^†	5.6	2.3
Non-white	3.0^*	1.7
Highest level of education in household
Secondary graduation or less	6.2^*	3.3^*
More than secondary graduation^†	5.0	2.0
Chronic conditions
0 to 2^†	5.1	2.0
3 or more	7.8^*	4.0^*
Smoking
Daily smoker	7.5^*	3.5^*
Non-/Occasional smoker^†	4.5	1.9
Alcohol use
No alcohol in past year	5.0	2.3
One or more drink(s) in past year, but heavy^‡ drinking never or less than monthly	4.8^*	2.1
Heavy^‡ drinking not more than 3 times per month	5.7	2.0^E
Heavy^‡ drinking at least weekly^†	6.2	3.5^E
Body mass index category
Underweight	6.1^E	2.4^E
Normal weight^†	5.1	1.9
Overweight	4.8	2.1
Obese	6.1	4.0^*
Life stress
Not at all/ Not very^†	4.5	2.0
A bit stressful	5.2	2.0
Quite a bit	5.5	2.5
Extremely	7.3^*	3.4^E ^*
† Reference category
‡ At least five drinks per occasion
* Significantly different from estimate for reference category (p < 0.05)
^E use with caution (coefficient of variation 16.6% to 33.3%)
F too unreliable to be published (coefficient of variation greater than 33.3%)
Source: 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey.