Table THORR05

Occupational asthma: estimated number of cases reported by chest physicians to SWORD and by occupational physicians to OPRA and estimated rates per 100,000 workers per year, by occupation 2005-2007

Occupation(a)	SOC2000		Chest physicians (SWORD)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
Occupation(a)	Major Group	Unit Group	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	Rate per 100,000 workers per year(d)	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	Rate per 100,000 workers per year(d)
Managers and Senior Officials	1		8	-	5	-
Professional Occupations	2		26	1	13	-
Secondary education teaching professionals		2314	13	3	4	1
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations	3		30	1	22	1
Laboratory technicians		3111	3	6	4	7
Nurses		3211	8	2	5	1
Adminstrative and Secretarial Occupations	4		6	-	13	-
Skilled Trades Occupations	5		128	4	15	1
Welding trades		5215	5	7	5	6
Metal machining setters and setter-operators		5221	6	9	-	-
Metal working production and maintenance fitters		5223	12	6	4	2
Vehicle spray painters		5234	20	100	2	8
Bakers, flour confectioners		5432	25	90	4	14
Personal Service Occupations	6		20	1	13	1
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	7		9	-	-	-
Process, Plant and Machine Operatives	8		94	5	20	1
Food, drink and tobacco process operatives		8111	11	8	5	3
Chemical and related process operatives		8114	15	32	4	9
Metal making and treating process operatives		8117	15	85	4	22
Metal working machine operatives		8125	7	9	1	1
Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods)		8132	5	10	1	2
Elementary Occupations	9		37	1	6	-
Cleaners, domestics		9233	10	2	-	-
All occupations			358	1	106	-

Notes:

(a) All SOC2000 Major Groups are shown, as are SOC2000 Unit Groups with 10 or more actual cases reported to either SWORD or OPRA over the period 2005-2007. Figures are shown in light type if they are based on fewer than 10 actual cases.
(b) Comparisons of rates based on OPRA reports are likely to be misleading because workers in some occupations are much more likely to have access to occupational physicians than those in others.
(c) Some physicians report on a sample basis, for one month in each year. Estimated totals for these are calculated by multiplying the actual number of cases reported by 12.
(d) The rates have been calculated using the average of the Office for National Statistics Annual Population Survey (APS) denominators for the years 2005-2007.
"-" can mean zero or rounds to zero.
nec Not elsewhere classified.
(p) Provisional.