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Unintentional injury indicators
Top three unintentional injury mortality categories

Table 32: Unintentional injury indicators

How to interpret results - tables

Indicator	Māori			non-Māori
Indicator	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
All unintentional injury hospitalisation, 0-14 years, 2002-04, rate per 100,000 ^{1,2 *}	2536.2 (2479.7-2593.6)	1793.4 (1744.7-1843.0)	2173.0 (2135.5-2210.9)	2225.3 (2196.2-2254.8	1538.9 (1513.9-1564.2)	1891.0 (1871.7-1910.4)
All unintentional injury hospitalisation, 2002-04, 15-64 years, rate per 100,000 ^{1,2 *}	3652.0 (3596.2-3708.4)	2244.5 (2202.7-2286.8)	2916.8 (2882.3-2951.6)	2421.1 (2402.0-2438.3)	1442.9 (1430.4-1455.4)	1925.3 (1914.8-1935.9)
All unintentional injury hospitalisation 65+ years, 2002-04, rate per 100,000 ^{1,2 *}	9561.0 (9173.7-9960.4	7755.5 (7441.0-8079.9)	8591.9 (8344.9-8844.3)	6557.1 (6494.9-6619.8)	5575.3 (5528.1-5622.7)	6024.6 (5986.5-6062.8)
All unintentional injury mortality, 0-14 years, 2000-02, rate per 100,000 ^{1,2 *}	20.2 (15.4-25.9)	16.1 (11.8-21.4)	18.2 (14.9-21.9)	11.4 (9.4-13.7)	6.2 (4.7-8.1)	8.9 (7.6-10.3)
All unintentional injury mortality, 15-64 years, 2000-02, rate per 100,000 ^{1,2 *}	74.6 (66.8-83.1)	24.5 (20.3-29.3)	48.4 (44.0-53.1)	35.8 (33.7-38.1)	9.6 (8.5-10.7)	22.5 (21.3-23.7)
All unintentional injury mortality, 65+ years, 2000-02, rate per 100,000 ^{1,2 *}	88.9 (55.0-135.9)	100.1 (67.5-142.9)	95.4 (71.1-125.5)	69.2 (63.2-75.6)	43.2 (39.9-46.8)	55.0 (51.8-58.3)

Notes:
¹ Age-standardised to 2001 Census total Māori population
² Ever-Māori ethnic group - see Methods and Data Sources section for further information.
Source:^* New Zealand Health Information Service

Māori children had a slightly higher unintentional injury hospitalisation rate than non-Māori children (RR 1.1, CI 1.1–1.2), and an unintentional injury mortality rate twice that of non-Māori children (RR 2.0, CI 1.6–2.6).

Māori adults in both age groups (15–64 and 65+ years) had unintentional injury hospitalisation rates one-and-a-half times those of non-Māori adults. For adults aged 15 to 64 years, Māori had an unintentional injury mortality rate twice that of non-Māori (RR 2.2, CI 1.9–2.4). For older adults aged 65 years or more, Māori had a mortality rate 1.7 times the non-Māori rate (RR 1.7, CI 1.3–2.3).

Table 33: Top three unintentional injury mortality categories, by age group, ranked by counts, 2000–02

How to interpret results - tables

	Māori	non-Māori
Males	0-14 years Suffocation Motor vehicle traffic Drowning	0-14 years Motor vehicle Drowning Suffocation
	15-64 years Motor vehicle traffic Drowning Fall	15-64 years Motor vehicle traffic Fall Drowning
	65+ years Motor vehicle traffic Fall Other transport, Fire/hot object or substance	65+ years Fall Motor vehicle traffic Suffocation
Females	0-14 years Motor vehicle traffic Suffocation Drowning	0-14 years Motor vehicle traffic Suffocation Drowning
	15-64 years Motor vehicle traffic Poisoning Fire/hot object or substance	15-64 years Motor vehicle traffic Poisoning Fall
	65+ years Fall Motor vehicle traffic Struck by/against	65+ years Fall Motor vehicle traffic Fire/hot object or substance

Note: Ever-Māori ethnic group - see Methods and Data Sources section for further information.
Source: New Zealand Health Information Service

The three most common causes of unintentional injury mortality differ by age group, gender and ethnicity. Motor vehicle trafﬁc was, for all groups, a common cause of unintentional injury causing death. Falls were a common cause of unintentional injury mortality for people aged 15 years or more, and were one of the top three causes of injury resulting in hospitalisation for all groups regardless of age, gender or ethnicity.

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