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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Occup Environ Med. 2010 Sep 23;68(1):16–23. doi: 10.1136/oem.2009.049908

Table 1.

Cohort demographics by sex in eleven plants

Male Female
Hourly (n = 9,280) Salaried (n = 3,322) Hourly (n = 793) Salaried (n = 1,223)
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Age 46.7 (9.0) 45.6 (8.4) 44.4 (8.9) 43.0 (8.8)
Income 50,685 (11,389) 95,025 (134,791) 45,707 (10,385) 67,436 (47,581)
 (median income): 49,201 75,883 45,025 55,134
Tenure
 (years on the job) 18.4 (11.8) 16.7 (10.2) 12.1 (9.1) 13.5 (9.3)
BMI 30.0 (5.2)* 29.2 (5.0)* 29.9 (6.0) 26.5 (5.7)
Job grade 12.4 (8.3) 14.8 (5.7) 7.3 (5.7) 11.0 (4.6)
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Education:
 Less than HS 4,133 (44.5) 405 (12.2) 337 (42.5) 104 (8.5)
 HS grad+ 1,306 (14.1) 751 (22.6) 138 (17.4) 185 (15.1)
 Unknown 3,841 (41.4) 2,166 (65.2) 318 (40.1) 934 (76.4)
Race/ ethnicity:
 Caucasian 7,942 (85.6) 2,979 (89.7) 569 (71.8) 1,068 (87.3)
 African-American 875 (9.4) 166 (5.0) 188 (23.7) 109 (8.9)
 Hispanic 410 (4.4) 107 (3.2) 27 (3.4) 28 (2.3)
 Other/ Unknown 53 (0.6) 70 (2.1) 9 (1.1) 18 (1.5)
Smoking:
 Current 1,623 (17.5) 209 (6.3) 169 (21.3) 43 (3.5)
 Prior 1,412 (15.2) 287 (8.6) 85 (10.7) 55 (4.5)
 Never 2,021 (21.8) 610 (18.4) 198 (25.0) 196 (16.0)
 Unknown 4,224 (45.5) 2,216 (66.7) 341 (43.0) 929 (76.0)
Hypertension 1,101 (11.9) 316 (9.5) 94 (11.9) 69 (5.6)
Heart disease 392 (4.2) 106 (3.2) 16 (2.0) 12 (1.0)
*

BMI distribution is based on the 54% of all hourly and 41% of salaried personnel with non-missing data; missing BMI was not significantly associated with other covariates.