Table 2.
Distribution of study participants and non-participants in the clinical oral health examination: The Healthy Finland Survey in 2023.
| Sociodemographic and -economic background and morbidity | Clinical oral health examination | p a | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Participated n = 1,798 | Did not participate n = 1,684 | ||
| % | |||
| Age group (years) | < 0.001 | ||
| 20–34 | 20 | 31 | |
| 35–44 | 17 | 17 | |
| 45–54 | 15 | 14 | |
| 55–64 | 19 | 14 | |
| 65–74 | 18 | 10 | |
| 75+ | 11 | 14 | |
| Women | 56 | 49 | < 0.001 |
| Level of education | < 0.001 | ||
| Lower | 13 | 26 | |
| Middle | 40 | 46 | |
| Higher | 47 | 28 | |
| Native language | < 0.001 | ||
| Finnish | 91 | 88 | |
| Swedish | 3 | 2 | |
| Other | 6 | 10 | |
| Occupation | < 0.001 | ||
| Managers | 2 | 1 | |
| Professionals | 15 | 10 | |
| Technicians and associate professionals | 13 | 9 | |
| Clerical support workers | 4 | 3 | |
| Service and trades workers | 10 | 11 | |
| Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 1 | 1 | |
| Craft and related trades workers | 4 | 6 | |
| Plant and machine operators, and assemblers | 3 | 4 | |
| Elementary occupations | 3 | 4 | |
| Unknown | 45 | 51 | |
| Socioeconomic group | < 0.001 | ||
| Student | 6 | 7 | |
| Manual worker | 12 | 17 | |
| Lower-level employees with administrative and clerical occupations | 23 | 19 | |
| Upper-level employees with administrative, managerial, professional and related occupations | 17 | 12 | |
| Self-employed person | 5 | 4 | |
| Pensioner | 28 | 26 | |
| Others | 9 | 15 | |
| Marital status | < 0.001 | ||
| Married | 49 | 35 | |
| Unmarried | 32 | 40 | |
| Divorced or separated | 13 | 14 | |
| Widow | 5 | 7 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 4 | |
| Statistical grouping of municipalities | 0.064 | ||
| Urban | 79.7 | 77.7 | |
| Rural | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
| Semi-urban | 20.2 | 21.9 | |
| Urban-rural classification | 0.305 | ||
| Inner urban area | 50 | 49 | |
| Outer urban area | 22 | 19 | |
| Peri-urban area | 11 | 13 | |
| Local centres in rural areas | 11 | 12 | |
| Rural areas close to urban areas | 3 | 3 | |
| Rural heartland areas | 3 | 4 | |
| Sparsely populated rural areas | 1 | 1 | |
| Hospitalisation from care Notification System (HILMO) | |||
| Any ICD-10 code | 96 | 94 | 0.001 |
| Cardiovascular disease (ICD-10 codes beginning with I) | 30 | 26 | 0.017 |
| Mental health (ICD-codes beginning with F) | 17 | 27 | < 0.001 |
| Infectious diseases (ICD-10 codes beginning with A, B or J0–J2) | 30 | 33 | 0.119 |
| Birth (ICD-codes beginning with O) | 21 | 18 | 0.035 |
| Accidents (ICD-codes beginning with S, T, V, X or Y) | 48 | 48 | 0.930 |
a
chi square test between the participants and non-participants.