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Table 3 Four-week prevalence of activity-limiting hip or knee pain (“In the past 4 weeks, have you had pain in your hips or knees? If yes, was this pain bad enough to limit your usual activities or change your daily routine for more than one day?”), both sexes, 15–49 year olds

From: Use of The Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health survey module for estimating the population prevalence of musculoskeletal pain: findings from the Solomon Islands

Background characteristic

Numerator

Denominator

Prevalence (%)

LCL (95%)

UCL (95%)

Total

998

9214

10.8

10.1

11.6

Sex

 Female

779

6292

12.4

11.4

13.3

 Male

219

2922

7.5

6.4

8.6

Age group

 15–19

116

1818

6.4

5.1

7.7

 20–24

142

1582

9.0

7.3

10.6

 25–29

142

1534

9.3

7.6

11.0

 30–34

150

1341

11.2

9.2

13.2

 35–39

164

1204

13.6

11.3

15.9

 40–44

129

959

13.5

10.9

16.0

 45–49

155

776

20.0

16.7

23.3

Urbanicity

 Urban

328

3785

8.7

7.6

9.7

 Rural

670

5429

12.3

11.3

13.4

Education

 Pre-school

1

9

11.1

0.0

35.3

 Primary

486

3741

13.0

11.7

14.3

 Secondary

365

4032

9.1

8.0

10.1

 Tertiary

48

721

6.7

4.5

8.8

 Vocational

15

148

10.1

4.4

15.9

 Other

1

156

0.6

0.0

2.1

 Missing

82

555

14.8

11.3

18.3

Ethnicity

 Melanesian

971

8857

11.0

10.2

11.7

 Polynesian

13

202

6.4

2.4

10.4

 Micronesian

14

131

10.7

4.4

16.9

 Other

0

21

0.0

0.0

0.0

 Missing

0

3

0.0

0.0

0.0

  1. LCL Lower 95% Confidence Limit, UCL Upper 95% Confidence Limit