Table 1.
Demographic and anthropometric characteristics of questionnaire respondents in 2005
| Floor layers (N = 109) | Graphic designers (N = 241) | |||||||
| 1995 | 2005 | 1995 | 2005 | |||||
| Mean | Range | Mean | Range | Mean | Range | Mean | Range | |
| Age (years) | 43.5 | 26–60 | 53.5 | 36–70 | 48.6 | 30–60 | 58.6 | 40–70 |
| Seniority * (years) | 22.0 | 2–40 | 29.4 | 3–49 | 27.6 | 1–45 | 34.9 | 2–54 |
| BMI‡(kg/m2) | 25.5 | 19.6–40.1 | 26.7 | 20.0–51.1 | 25.0 | 16.8–37.3 | 26.1 | 16.6–42.0 |
| Employment in the trade | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Presently at work | 81 (74.3%) | 56 (51.4%) | 173 (71.8%) | 75 (31.1%) | ||||
| Presently off work | 28 (25.7%) | 53 (48.6%) | 68 (28.2%) | 166 (68.9%) | ||||
| - Change of occupation | 18 (16.5%) | 27 (24.8%) | 37 (15.3%) | 69 (28.7%) | ||||
| - Early retirement | 2 (1.9%) | 9 (8.3%) | 27 (11.2%) | 68 (28.2%) | ||||
| - Old-age pension | - | 5 (4.6%) | - | 19 (7.9%) | ||||
| - Disability pension | 7 (6.4%) | 8 (7.3%) | 4 (1.7%) | 8 (3.3%) | ||||
| - Rehabilitated | - | 1 (0.9%) | - | - | ||||
| - Long illness | 1 (0.9%) | 3 (2.7%) | - | 2 (0.8%) | ||||
*Duration of employment in the trade
‡BMI, body mass index