Table 1.
Socioeconomic and other attributes in a cohort of 40,913 fulltime workers in Thailand
| Male | Female | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attributes | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Total | 18,148 | 44.7 | 22,765 | 55.6 | 40,913 | 100.0 |
| Job location | ||||||
| Bangkok | 3,117 | 17.2 | 4,961 | 21.8 | 8,078 | 19.7 |
| Urban | 7,682 | 42.3 | 8,955 | 39.3 | 16,637 | 40.7 |
| Rural | 7,349 | 40.5 | 8,849 | 38.9 | 16,198 | 39.6 |
| Job typea | ||||||
| Office | 11,708 | 81.0 | 17,042 | 85.2 | 28,750 | 83.4 |
| Physical | 2,741 | 19.0 | 2,970 | 14.8 | 5,711 | 16.6 |
| Education | ||||||
| University | 5,271 | 29.0 | 6,925 | 30.4 | 12,196 | 29.8 |
| Diploma | 4,900 | 27.0 | 8,208 | 36.1 | 13,108 | 32.0 |
| High school | 7,977 | 44.0 | 7,632 | 33.5 | 15,609 | 38.2 |
| Personal income (Baht/month) | ||||||
| 20,001+ | 2,554 | 14.1 | 1,930 | 8.5 | 4,484 | 11.0 |
| 10,001–20,000 | 6,353 | 35.0 | 5,862 | 25.7 | 12,215 | 29.9 |
| 7,001–10,000 | 5,121 | 28.2 | 6,626 | 29.1 | 11,747 | 28.7 |
| <7,000 | 4,120 | 22.7 | 8,347 | 36.7 | 12,467 | 30.5 |
| Other work hazard complaints | ||||||
| No other complaints | 12,669 | 69.8 | 16,484 | 72.4 | 29,153 | 71.3 |
| Scored 1–2 items with ‘often’ | 4,436 | 24.4 | 5,501 | 24.2 | 9,937 | 24.3 |
| Scored 3–5 items with ‘often’ | 1,043 | 5.8 | 780 | 3.4 | 1,823 | 4.5 |
| Overall health | ||||||
| No poor overall health | 17,484 | 96.3 | 21,503 | 94.5 | 38,987 | 95.3 |
| Poor overall health | 664 | 3.8 | 1,262 | 5.6 | 1,926 | 4.7 |
| Psychological distress | ||||||
| Not psychologically distressed | 16,807 | 92.6 | 20,714 | 90.99 | 37,521 | 91.71 |
| Psychologically distressed | 1,341 | 7.4 | 2,051 | 9.0 | 3,392 | 8.3 |
aJob type is available for analysis with 24,907 respondents (see Section ‘Methods’).