Table 3
Percentage in selected occupational categories who sustained at least one activity-limiting work injury in past year, employed household population aged 18 to 75, Canada, 2003

	%
Total employed	3.8
Total sales and service occupations†	3.3
Sales and service supervisors	3.3E
Wholesale, technical, insurance, real estate sales specialists and retail, wholesale and grain buyers	1.0E*
Retail salespersons and sales clerks	2.9E
Cashiers	1.9E*
Chefs and cooks	7.2E*
Occupations in food and beverage service	4.9E*
Occupations in protective services	5.1*
Occupations in travel and accommodation including attendants in recreation and sport	F
Childcare and home support workers	2.7E
Sales and service occupations, n.e.c.	4.0
Total trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations†	8.5
Contractors and supervisors	5.5E*
Construction trades	8.1
Stationary engineers, power station operators and electrical trades and telecommunications occupations	7.3
Machinists, metal forming, shaping and erecting occupations	12.6*
Mechanics	10.9*
Other trades, n.e.c.	6.6E
Heavy equipment and crane operators including drillers	8.2E
Transportation equipment operators and related workers, excluding labourers	7.5
Trades helpers, construction and transportation labourers and related occupations	9.3
Total occupations unique to primary industry†	6.7
Occupations unique to agriculture excluding labourers	7.3
Occupations unique to forestry operations, mining, oil and gas extraction, fishing, excluding labourers	5.3*
Primary production labourers	6.6E
Total occupations unique to processing, manufacturing and utilities†	7.2
Supervisors in manufacturing	5.2E
Machine operators in manufacturing	8.5*
Assemblers in manufacturing	5.9E
Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities	5.2E
†  Reference category
*  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%)
n.e.c.  Not elsewhere classified
Source: 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey.