Table 1. Descriptive statistics of 4 857 943 women and men, aged 16–64 years and living in Sweden, neither on old-age nor disability pension and without an ongoing sick-leave spell at the turn of 2004/2005.

Characteristics	Women		Men
	N	%	N	%
Study population, all	2307056	47.5	2550887	52.5
Sickness absence, 2005
No sickness absence	2056182	89.1	2384466	93.5
Sickness absence; mental diagnoses	52083	2.3	24967	1.0
Sickness absence; non-mental diagnoses	198791	8.6	141454	5.5
Age group, years
16–24	448147	19.4	470087	18.4
25–34	515871	22.4	552616	21.7
35–44	526449	22.8	589279	23.1
45–54	447692	19.4	508505	19.
55–64	368897	16.0	430400	16.9
Educational level (years)
Low (≤9)	426735	18.5	576202	22.6
Medium (10–12)	1039765	45.1	1221633	47.9
High (≥12)	840556	36.4	753052	29.5
Family situation
Married/living with partner without children	327985	14.2	314795	12.3
Married/living with partner with children	838612	36.3	875617	34.3
Single/divorced/separated/widowed without children	696117	30.2	1048849	41.1
Single/divorced/separated/widowed with children	224648	9.7	65765	2.6
Adolescents living with parents, 16–20 years	219694	9.5	245861	9.6
Area of residence 1
Big cities	883984	38.3	940349	36.9
Medium-sized cities	814508	35.3	904671	35.5
Small cities/villages	608564	26.4	705867	27.7
Country of birth
Sweden	1985456	86.1	2224802	87.2
Other Northern European countries	71399	3.1	63857	2.5
EU25 without Northern European countries	46911	2.0	48518	1.9
Rest of the world	203290	8.8	213710	8.0.4
Cause of death, 2005–2008
Suicide	512	6.1	1651	9.4
Cancer	4970	58.9	5748	32.8
Smoking-related cancer	1706	20.2	2456	14.0
Non-smoking related cancer	3264	38.7	3292	18.8
Circulatory disease	1256	14.9	4729	27.0
Other causes of death	1698	20.1	5383	30.7

¹Area of residence: big cities: Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö; medium-sized cities: cities with more than 90 000 inhabitants within 30 km distance from the centre of the city; small cities/villages [20].