Table 1.
Distribution of participants, incidence of disability pension awards, total and stratified by gender.
| Disability pension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupational class | Total n (%) | Men n (%) | Women n (%) | Total n (%) | Men n (%) | Women n (%) |
| p < 0.001* | p = 0.003* | p < 0.001* | ||||
| Administrators and professionals | 2393 (34.0) | 1442 (49.1) | 951 (23.2) | 32 (1.3) | 17 (1.2) | 15 (1.6) |
| Routine non-manual workers | 2492 (35.4) | 444 (15.1) | 2048 (50.0) | 73 (2.9) | 9 (2.0) | 64 (3.1) |
| Skilled manual workers | 1535 (21.8) | 780 (26.6) | 755 (18.4) | 62 (4.0) | 23 (2.9) | 39 (5.2) |
| Unskilled manual workers | 611 (8.7) | 269 (9.2) | 342 (8.3) | 42 (6.9) | 11 (4.1) | 31 (9.1) |
| Total | 7031 (100) | 2935 (100) | 4096 (100) | 209 (3.0) | 60 (2.0) | 149 (3.6) |
*χ2 for differences between groups