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. 2009 Nov 30;9:435. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-435

Table 1.

Indicators of time- and strain-based and aggregate work-life conflict (WLC) among 20-64 year old employees in Switzerland

Dimensions/indicators (categories) Men Women Total



Score N1) %2) N1) %2) N1) %2)
Time-based WLC
0 367 19.2 605 28.0 972 23.3
How strongly does your work interfere 1-3 520 23.6 564 24.3 1084 23.9
with your private life and family 4-6 715 33.4 692 29.8 1407 31.7
obligations more than you would like? 7-10 481 23.8 411 17.9 892 21.0
Strain-based WLC
0 560 28.9 755 35.0 1315 31.8
How difficult do you find it to 1-3 688 31.7 631 27.1 1319 29.5
disconnect from work when the 4-6 532 25.2 572 24.6 1104 24.9
work day is over? 7-10 301 14.3 317 13.4 618 13.9
Level/degree of combined time- and
strain-based WLC
 Inexistent 0 213 11.2 362 17.0 575 13.9
 Very low 1-4 396 18.3 491 21.7 887 19.9
 Low 5-8 675 32.1 674 29.4 1349 30.9
 Moderate 9-12 510 24.5 476 20.9 986 22.8
 High 13-16 256 12.6 222 9.3 478 11.0
 Very high 17-20 29 1.3 43 1.7 72 1.5

1) unweighted data; 2) weighted data