Reliability of Routinely Collected Hospital Data for Child Maltreatment Surveillance

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Age Groups and Sex Distribution of Children by Maltreatment Strata

Sex and Age Groups	Definitive Code		Possible Code		Unintentional Injury Code		Total
	n	Col%	n	Col%	n	Col%	n	Col%
Males
<1	39	48.1	8	11.1	9	3.0	56	12.2
1-5	30	37.0	16	22.2	69	22.6	115	25.1
6-9	4	4.9	13	18.1	57	18.7	74	16.2
10-14	7	8.6	27	37.5	93	30.5	127	27.7
15-17	1	1.2	8	11.1	77	25.2	86	18.8
Total	81	100	72	100	305	100	458	100
Females
< 1	31	26.1	8	5.3	9	5.8	48	11.3
1-5	43	36.1	28	18.5	51	32.7	122	28.6
6-9	15	12.6	12	7.9	39	25.0	66	15.5
10-14	22	18.5	57	37.7	29	18.6	108	25.4
15-17	8	6.7	46	30.5	28	17.9	82	19.2
Total	119	100	151	100	156	100	426	100
Total
< 1	70	35.0	16	7.2	18	3.9	104	11.8
1-5	73	36.5	44	19.7	120	26.0	237	26.8
6-9	19	9.5	25	11.2	96	20.8	140	15.8
10-14	29	14.5	84	37.7	122	26.5	235	26.6
15-17	9	4.5	54	24.2	105	22.8	168	19.0
Total	200	100	223	100	461	100	884	100

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