Table 2.

Prevalence of common mental disorder by sub-major SOC group

	All	Men	Women
Overall prevalence	13 (12–15)	11 (9–12)	17 (15–19)
High prevalence groups
Buyers, brokers and sales reps			30 (13–48)
Clerical occupations	16 (13–19)		20 (16–24)
Managers and Administrators	15 (12–17)	14 (10–17)
Other associate professional occupation	18 (14–22)	13 (7–19)	24 (16–31)
Other sales occupations	18 (14–22)	16 (7–25)	19 (14–24)
Personal service occupations	16 (13–20)	13 (6–20)
Secretarial occupations	15 (10–20)
Skilled construction trades		13 (6–19)
Teaching professionals	15 (11–20)	13 (6–19)
Low prevalence groups
Buyers, brokers and sales representatives		6 (0–12)
Clerical occupations		9 (5–14)
Drivers and mobile machine operators	9 (4–14)	7 (2–11)
Health associate professionals	11 (6–16)		11 (6–16)
Industrial plant and machine operators, assemblers	9 (6–12)	9 (5–12)	9 (3–15)
Managers and proprietors in agriculture services			12 (6–17)
Other elementary occupations		8 (4–13)	15 (10–20)
Other professional occupations	10 (5–15)	8 (2–14)
Other skilled trades	10 (7–14)
Protective service occupations	11 (4–18)
Science and engineering associate professionals	11 (6–16)	6 (1–11)
Science and Engineering professionals	8 (3–13)
Secretarial occupations			14 (9–19)
Skilled engineering trades	10 (5–15)

All values are percentage (95% CI)