Table 1.

Number (%) of women ever employed in occupations and industries known to present an excess risk of lung cancer (A-list) using two different levels of specificity for matching the occupation and industry codes to the A-list.

Industry	Occupation	More specific criteria		Less specific criteria
		Cohort (n=71,067)	Lung cancer (n=219)	Cohort (n=71,067)	Lung cancer (n=219)
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Vineyard workers using arsenical insecticides	‡	‡	‡	‡
Mining and quarrying	Arsenic mining, iron-ore mining, asbestos mining, uranium mining, talc mining and milling	5 (0.01)	0	46 (0.1)	0
Chemical (basic industrial)	BCME and CCME production workers and users, pigment chromate production†	‡	‡	‡	‡
Pesticides and herbicides production	Arsenical insecticides production and packaging	‡	‡	35 (0.1)	1 (0.5)
Asbestos production	Insulated material production (pipes, sheeting, textile, clothes, masks, asbestos cement products)	52 (0.1)	0	100 (0.1)	0
Metals	Aluminium production, copper smelting, chromate production, etc.	233 (0.3)	0	1,885 (2.7)	1 (0.5)
Shipbuilding, motor vehicle and railroad equipment manufacture	Shipyard and dockyard, motor vehicle, and railroad manufacture workers	38 (0.1)	0	1050 (1.5)	2 (0.9)
Gas	Coke plant workers, gas workers	27 (0.04)	0	74 (0.1)	0
Construction	Insulators and pipe coverers, roofers, asphalt workers	‡	‡	1,178 (1.7)	4 (1.8)
Other	Painters (construction, automotive industry, and other users)	201 (0.3)	0	970 (1.4)	6 (2.7)
Any A-list		551 (0.8)	0	4,941 (6.7)	14 (6.4)

^‡No satisfactory definition of this group by the Chinese National Standard Occupational and Industry Codes

^†BCME: bischloromethylether; CCME: chloromethylmethylether