Labor and Related Injuries among Schoolchildren in Palestine: Findings from the National Study of Palestinian Schoolchildren (HBSC-WBG2006)

Table 2

Sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents according to type of work in the Palestinian HBSC-2006 study.

Type of work	Gender		Grade				School ownership			Region		FAS
	Boys	Girls	6 G	8 G	10 G	12 G	Gov.	UNRWA	Private	West; Bank	Gaza Strip	FAS 1 (low)	FAS 2 (moderate)	FAS 3 (high)
Agricultural production
%	22.9^∗	14.2	21.0^∗	17.8	19.9	21.0^∗	20.5^∗	15.7	19.8	21.0^∗	18.3	18.1	21.2	23.3^∗
𝑛	966	317	365	307	321	290	1076	129	78	781	502	714	317	163
Retail trade
%	46.0	61.5^∗	49.3	52.7	53.7^∗	50.1	51.3	54.4^∗	47.3	48.9	54.9^∗	53.8^∗	49.1	47.9
𝑛	1948	1377	857	908	868	69.2	2691	448	186	1818	1507	2120	732	336
Street traders
%	7.3^∗	5.7	7.1	8.9^∗	5.0	5.7	6.8	7.2^∗	5.6	6.7	6.9	6.4	6.8^∗	6.4
𝑛	307	128	123	153	81	78	354	59	22	247	188	254	102	45
Tool maintenance work
%	4.3^∗	2.0	4.1^∗	3.3	2.9	3.8	3.5	3.8^∗	3.8^∗	3.4	3.6^∗	3.0	4.6^∗	3.3
𝑛	182	45	72	56	47	52	181	31	15	127	100	119	69	23
Cleaners
%	3.3^∗	2.9	4.8^∗	3.2	2.2	2.2	2.9	5.0^∗	3.3	2.9	3.6^∗	2.7	4.0^∗	2.7
𝑛	138	66	84	55	35	30	150	41	13	106	98	107	59	19
Movement of goods
%	3.7^∗	1.2	2.9	2.4	3.7^∗	2.4	2.8	2.7	4.3^∗	2.7	3.0^∗	2.8	3.4^∗	2.7
𝑛	158	27	51	41	60	33	146	22	17	102	83	111	50	19
Building construction/maintenance
%	3.4^∗	1.0	2.1	2.0	3.3^∗	3.0	2.4	2.3	5.1^∗	3.1^∗	1.9	2.3	2.7	3.6^∗
𝑛	145	22	36	35	54	42	128	19	20	116	51	91	41	25
Workshops like carpenting, mechanics, aluminum
%	2.0^∗	0.7	1.0	1.9^∗	1.5	1.9^∗	1.5	1.2	3.3^∗	1.9^∗	1.1	1.4	1.7^∗	1.7^∗
𝑛	84	16	17	32	25	26	77	10	13	70	30	55	25	12
House work
%	6.9	10.8^∗	7.8	7.8	7.7	9.9^∗	8.4^∗	7.8	7.4	9.3^∗	6.7	9.3^∗	6.5	7.7
𝑛	290	242	135	135	125	137	439	64	29	347	185	367	97	54

𝑛: sample size; 𝑃 value of chi-square test.
∗Significant at 𝑃<0.05.