Figure 1: Proportion of adolescents aged 16–17 years who reported injury in the previous two years

Stacked bar chart

• Female
• Not injured 81.1%
• One injury 9.3%
• Two or more injuries 9.6%
• Male
• Not injured 74.7%
• One injury 12.0%
• Two or more injuries 13.3%
• Total
• Not injured 77.9%
• One injury 10.7%
• Two or more injuries 11.5%

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igure 2: Place where injuries happened, sports injuries and non-sports injuries

Pie charts

• Place sport injury occurred
• School (28.4%)
• Outside public place (55.8%)
• Inside public place (14.2%)
• Place non-sport injury occurred
• Home (30.7%)
• School (18.3%)
• Work (7.5%)
• Another's home (7.7%)
• Outside public place (17.7%)
• Inside public place (2.6%)
• Public road (6.4%)
• Other (9.2%)

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Figure 3: Percentage of adolescents with a sports injury, by adolescent characteristics

Bar chart:

• Sex
• Male (14.9%)
• Female (10.2%)
• Parent education
• Degree (11.0%)
• No degree (14.5%)
• Team sport
• No (7.1%)
• Yes (17.4%)
• Fitness activity
• No (10.9%)
• Yes (14.1%)
• Prior injury
• No (10.3%)
• Yes (16.8%)
• SEIFA Index of socio-disadvantage
• Low (13.1%)
• Middle (11.2%)
• High (15.1%)
• Agreeableness
• Low/moderate (13.2%)
• High (8.1%)

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Figure 4: Percentage of adolescents with a non-sports injury, by adolescent characteristics

Bar chart

• Parent income
• Low (12.8%)
• Middle (8.2%)
• High (8.2%)
• Parent education
• Degree (7.7%)
• No degree (10.8%)
• Prior injury
• No (7.4%)
• Yes (13.7%)
• School status
• Government (9.5%)
• Catholic (7.1%)
• Independent (9.3%)
• Not in school (15.6%)
• Employed
• No (7.8%)
• Yes (11.0%)
• Team sport
• No (11.4%)
• Yes (6.8%)
• Low parental monitoring
• No (8.6%)
• Yes (11.8%)
• Conscientiousness
• Low/moderate (10.5%)
• High (6.5%)
• Neuroticism
• Low/moderate (8.8%)
• High (13.1%)
• Openness
• Low/moderate (8.4%)
• High (12.6%)

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