Table 2.

The mean annual employment months, unemployment months, and months spent on disability benefits per different register-based proxies used

Proxies		Total sample
		Employment	Unemployment	Work disability
Age group	(% of total sample)
	20–29 (21.1)	8.3	1.1	0.4
	30–39 (23.1)	9.6	1.0	0.5
	40–49 (21.7)	10.1	1.0	0.6
	50–59 (22.8)	9.7	1.1	1.0
	60–64 (11.5)	7.5	1.4	1.8
Sex
	Male (50.8)	9.1	1.2	0.7
	Female (49.2)	9.4	1.0	0.8
Native language
	Finnish (86.1)	9.4	1.0	0.8
	Swedish (4.7)	10.0	0.6	0.6
	Other (9.3)	7.3	1.8	0.4
Level of education
	Primary degree or unknown (13.2)	5.9	2.1	1.8
	Secondary degree (48.0)	9.1	1.2	0.8
	Higher degree (38.8)	10.5	0.6	0.4
Occupational group
	Armed forces (0.3)	11.8	0.0	0.1
	Managers (2.8)	11.9	0.1	0.1
	Professionals (17.0)	11.7	0.2	0.2
	Technicians and associate professionals (13.7)	11.7	0.2	0.3
	Clerical support workers (3.8)	11.6	0.4	0.3
	Service and sales workers (14.6)	11.5	0.5	0.4
	Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (1.6)	11.8	0.2	0.4
	Craft and related traders workers (7.3)	11.6	0.4	0.2
	Plant and machine operators, and assemblers (6.2)	11.6	0.4	0.3
	Elementary occupations (4.4)	11.3	0.7	0.4
	Missing information (28.5)	3.3	3.0	2.0
Children under 18
	0 (68.0)	8.8	1.2	1.0
	1 (13.4)	10.1	0.8	0.4
	2–3 (17.0)	10.5	0.7	0.3
	4 or more (1.6)	9.0	1.0	0.3
Household size
	1 (25.4)	8.2	1.6	1.2
	2 (33.2)	9.5	1.0	0.7
	3 or more (41.4)	9.7	0.8	0.5
Family type
	Living alone (25.4)	8.2	1.6	1.2
	Couple without children (28.0)	9.8	0.9	0.7
	Couple with children (34.3)	10.2	0.7	0.4
	Single parent (6.9)	8.6	1.4	0.8
	Missing information (5.4)
Type of municipality of residence
	City (75.0)	9.2	1.1	0.7
	Densely populated area (14.0)	9.5	0.9	0.9
	Rural area (11.1)	9.4	1.0	1.0
Number of health challenges
	0 (50.3)	9.6	1.0	0.3
	1 (39.0)	9.2	1.1	0.8
	2 (10.7)	7.7	1.2	2.5