From: Injury related adult deaths in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: analysis of data from verbal autopsy
 | All Deaths | Injury Deaths | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
Sex | ||||
 Male | 3827 | 51.9 | 395 | 79.6 |
 Female | 3548 | 48.1 | 101 | 20.4 |
Age group in years | ||||
 15–34 | 1229 | 16.7 | 218 | 43.9 |
 35–54 | 1926 | 26.1 | 160 | 32.3 |
 55–74 | 2428 | 32.9 | 91 | 18.4 |
 Greater than 74 | 1792 | 24.3 | 27 | 5.4 |
Educational Status | ||||
 No formal Education | 2842 | 38.5 | 75 | 15.1 |
 Primary Education | 1771 | 24.0 | 107 | 21.6 |
 Secondary Education | 1556 | 21.1 | 170 | 34.3 |
 Above Secondary Education | 701 | 9.5 | 64 | 12.9 |
 Informal education | 237 | 3.2 | 18 | 3.6 |
 Unknown | 268 | 3.6 | 62 | 12.5 |
Religion | ||||
 Orthodox | 6500 | 88.1 | 441 | 88.9 |
 Muslim | 627 | 8.5 | 40 | 8.1 |
 Others | 248 | 3.4 | 15 | 3.0 |
Ethnicity | ||||
 Amhara | 3823 | 51.8 | 245 | 49.4 |
 Oromo | 1817 | 24.6 | 127 | 25.6 |
 Gurage | 926 | 12.6 | 68 | 13.7 |
 Others | 680 | 9.2 | 55 | 11.1 |
 Unknown | 129 | 1.8 | 1 | – |
Marital Status | ||||
 Single | 1404 | 19.0 | 229 | 46.2 |
 Married | 3244 | 44.0 | 229 | 46.2 |
 Divorced/ Separated | 733 | 9.9 | 35 | 7.0 |
 Widowed | 1972 | 26.7 | 2 | 0.4 |
 Unknown | 22 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 |
Total | 7375 | 100.0 | 496 | 100 |