Table 1.

Distribution of women and men by age, education, country of birth, and type of diagnosis at MMA (n = 1002)

	n	Men n = 370 %	Women n = 632 %	Total n = 1002 %	PChi2
Age					0.056 (ns)
21–39	261	22	29	26
40–49	381	39	38	38
50–63	360	39	34	36
Education					0.079 (ns)
Elementary	406	44	38	41
High school	352	31	38	35
University	244	25	24	24
Country of birth					0.153 (ns)
Sweden	573	54	59	57
Other than Sweden	428	46	41	43
Diagnosis					0.004*
Somatic	266	22	29	27
Psychiatric	244	29	22	24
Somatic + Psych	467	47	47	47
Nonea	25	3	2	3

Notes:

^aNo diagnosis was assessed in 25 cases and no P-value was computed;

^*Indicates significant results.

Abbreviations: MMA, multidisciplinary medical assessment; ns, not significant.