Table 1.
Overview of the study population (numbers). COVID-19 risk estimates are provided for employees in the subgroups indicated with bold. [JEM=job exposure matrix.]
| Employees | 4-digit DISCO-08 occupations | Incident COVID-19 cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| At-risk a occupations with >2000 employees | 1 620 231 b | 155 | 2944 |
| Industrial sector (DB07) with average 4-digit-DISCO-08 JEM sumscore <12–24 | 853 599 | 155 | 1751 |
| JEM sumscore 1–12 | 126 575 | 97 | 183 |
| JEM sumscore >12–24 | 727 024 c | 58 | 1568 |
| Industrial sector (DB07) with average 4-digit-DISCO-08 JEM sumscore 1–12 | 766 632 | 155 | 1193 |
| At-risk a occupations with ≤2000 employees | 124 287 | 218 | 220 |
| Referent occupations d | 369 341 | 50 | 559 |
| Missing 4-digit DISCO-08 codes | 337 306 | 693 | |
| Dead before start of follow-up week 8, 2020 | 377 | 0 | |
| Entire study population | 2 451 542 | 423 | 4416 |
Non-referent occupations.
Occupational risk across all industrial sectors (displayed in table 3)
Industrial sector-stratified risk estimates (displayed in table 2). Numbers in table 2 do not sum to corresponding numbers in table 1 because some occupations are present in several industrial sectors and some occupations are presented at a higher or lower DISCO-08 level.
Low likelihood of occupational SARS-CoV-2 exposure according to an expert rated COVID-19 job exposure matrix with eight dimensions (sumscore = 0). Occupations that met this criterion were included in the reference group whatever their number of employees.