Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
Research
Differential Effects of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 on Remote and Indigenous Groups, Northern Territory, Australia, 2009
James McCracken Trauer
, Karen Louise Laurie, Joseph McDonnell, Anne Kelso, and Peter Gregory Markey
, Karen Louise Laurie, Joseph McDonnell, Anne Kelso, and Peter Gregory MarkeyTable 4
Attack rates standardized to Northern Territory population, by age group, indigenous status, and geographic region, in a study of differential effects of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 on remote and indigenous groups, Northern Territory, Australia, September 2009
| Demographic characteristics |
Adjusted attack rate, % (95% Confidence interval) |
| Overall |
14.9 (11.0–18.9) |
| Sex | |
| F | 15.4 (10.7–20.0) |
| M |
14.4 (9.1–19.7) |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander | 22.9 (16.0–29.9) |
| Nonindigenous |
12.4 (8.1–16.8) |
| Age, y | |
| <14 | 36.0 (25.5–46.4) |
| 15–34 | 15.3 (9.8–20.9) |
| 35–54 | 4.3 (−3.2 to 11.8) |
| >55 |
3.5 (−1.2 to 8.2) |
| Geographic region | |
| Urban Darwin | 12.8 (8.4–17.2) |
| Rural Top End | 14.2 (8.0–20.4) |
| Central Australia |
21.4 (12.8–30.1) |
| Socioeconomic quintile* | |
| 5 (least disadvantaged) | 13.6 (7.5–19.8) |
| 4 | 10.0 (4.3–15.7) |
| 3 | 14.6 (7.5–26.8) |
| 2 | 24.0 (14.6–33.5) |
| 1 (most disadvantaged) | 13.8 (6.9–20.6) |
*Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Socio-Economic Indexes for Area index of relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage.
