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. 2011 Mar 11;4:25–31. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S17138

Table 2.

Number of days on disability pension, sickness benefits, and unemployment related to sex, age, education, country of birth, and diagnosis

Y Sex
Age
Education
Country of birth
Diagnosis
W M P <39 <49 <63 P E H U P O SW P S P SP P
Disability pension
t-5 24 15 0.062 17 26 17 0.150 23 18 19 0.634 16 24 0.124 17 24 22 0.548
t-4 32 20 0.038 24 36 21 0.045 32 23 27 0.396 24 31 0.194 25 32 29 0.657
t-3 42 28 0.027 37 44 29 0.139 40 36 34 0.733 34 39 0.414 31 40 40 0.434
t-2 63 51 0.124 52 72 49 0.015 61 63 47 0.239 54 61 0.348 51 54 66 0.184
t-1 83 72 0.216 67 96 70 0.009 81 84 70 0.445 77 80 0.775 65 72 92 0.026
t0 111 94 0.061 90 115 104 0.078 112 104 93 0.234 105 104 0.889 84 105 119 0.005
t1 192 187 0.596 151 192 218 <0.001 208 182 173 0.008 207 178 0.002 147 197 217 <0.001
t2 244 239 0.613 199 241 276 <0.001 263 233 223 0.001 267 224 <0.001 205 255 263 <0.001
t3 264 261 0.778 217 264 295 <0.001 279 256 246 0.015 284 248 <0.001 236 274 279 0.001
t4 268 265 0.715 230 269 295 <0.001 285 258 250 0.014 286 252 0.001 237 278 282 0.001
t5 277 264 0.268 232 276 301 <0.001 292 262 250 0.006 293 255 0.001 244 280 288 0.005
Sickness benefits
t-5 68 71 0.698 62 79 64 0.099 69 72 66 0.828 68 69 0.881 63 60 79 0.059
t-4 92 95 0.808 85 111 80 0.003 80 106 96 0.022 83 100 0.041 79 77 110 0.001
t-3 122 127 0.617 108 136 121 0.050 114 127 133 0.242 105 137 0.001 111 104 140 0.002
t-2 150 163 0.193 152 153 159 0.775 148 157 163 0.452 148 161 0.162 135 159 164 0.030
t-1 189 208 0.064 201 190 199 0.597 187 199 207 0.251 195 197 0.849 185 211 194 0.136
t0 211 230 0.053 225 215 215 0.656 213 218 226 0.582 223 214 0.339 227 226 208 0.176
t1 122 118 0.722 139 126 101 0.002 112 124 129 0.274 120 121 0.924 149 115 104 <0.001
t2 60 58 0.784 80 62 42 <0.001 54 64 64 0.383 55 63 0.316 76 55 47 0.005
t3 30 27 0.508 40 30 19 0.016 30 30 25 0.747 27 30 0.512 32 26 22 0.293
t4 19 14 0.273 17 24 9 0.016 17 19 14 0.734 15 18 0.529 22 12 15 0.285
t5 18 14 0.458 18 21 10 0.212 13 17 22 0.401 15 18 0.595 26 8 14 0.035
Unemployment benefits
t-5 57 80 0.003 78 75 48 0.002 61 73 63 0.338 73 61 0.093 60 75 65 0.343
t-4 52 70 0.019 62 70 45 0.009 60 62 52 0.503 69 51 0.014 60 68 53 0.226
t-3 49 64 0.036 51 70 41 0.002 55 56 51 0.846 72 42 <0.001 57 64 48 0.206
t-2 38 49 0.085 36 54 32 0.005 45 40 39 0.694 54 33 0.001 44 46 39 0.559
t-1 28 26 0.603 24 34 22 0.067 30 24 26 0.539 29 26 0.453 35 21 26 0.113
t0 16 16 0.982 12 19 15 0.361 18 13 16 0.533 14 17 0.495 20 13 14 0.321
t1 20 18 0.608 23 22 15 0.237 21 16 22 0.499 13 24 0.007 24 17 17 0.342
t2 18 24 0.167 23 28 11 0.004 20 18 24 0.584 15 24 0.046 25 15 21 0.283
t3 17 27 0.049 25 31 6 <0.001 15 24 24 0.213 19 21 0.726 24 20 18 0.578
t4 20 22 0.731 29 24 10 0.018 13 24 28 0.069 15 25 0.078 29 22 14 0.074
t5 21 15 0.282 27 24 6 0.008 12 27 18 0.074 12 24 0.049 35 13 10 0.001

Notes: The average per person per year, 5–1 years (Y) before (t-5 to t-1) multidisciplinary medical assessment (MMA), during (t0) and after MMA (t1 to t5), related to sex (W, women; M, men), age at MMA (<39 = 21–39, <49 = 40–49, <63 = 50–63), education (E, elementary; H, high school; U, university), country of birth (O, other than Sweden; SW, Sweden), diagnosis (S, somatic; P, psychiatric; SP, somatic and psychiatric); no diagnosis was assessed in 25 individuals. ANOVA, P-value. F-values, and df were computed but are not presented in the table. P-values in bold type indicate significant results.