Table 1.
Differences in background factors with regard to sex in the SLOSH study, Sweden (n = 6580)
| Characteristics at baseline | Sex |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men (n = 2889), Mean (SD) | Women (n = 3691), Mean (SD) | Pa | ||
| Age 2008 | 48.6 ± 9.7 | 48.7 ± 10.0 | 48.6 ± 9.5 | 0.573 |
| Weekly working hours | 40.5 ± 13.5 | 43.1 ± 13.1 | 38.5 ± 13.4 | <0.0001 |
| Yearly income (in thousand SEK) | 312.4 ± 150.6 | 359.8 ± 176.7 | 275.2 ± 112.2 | <0.0001 |
| n (col %) | n (row %) | n (row %) | Pb | |
| WFC 2008 | <0.0001 | |||
| Very rarely | 2467 (37.8) | 1133 (39.5) | 1334 (36.4) | |
| Not very often | 1234 (18.9) | 576 (20.1) | 658 (18.0) | |
| Sometimes | 2187 (33.5) | 904 (31.5) | 1283 (35.0) | |
| Very often | 583 (8.9) | 236 (8.2) | 347 (9.5) | |
| The whole time | 60 (0.9) | 20 (0.7) | 40 (1.1) | |
| Marital status | <0.0001 | |||
| Unmarried | 1896 (28.8) | 905 (31.3) | 991 (26.8) | |
| Married | 3822 (58.1) | 1692 (58.6) | 2130 (57.7) | |
| Divorced | 771 (11.7) | 272 (9.4) | 499 (13.5) | |
| Widowed | 91 (1.4) | 20 (0.7) | 71 (1.9) | |
| Education 2008 | <0.0001 | |||
| Compulsory school | 590 (9.0) | 351 (12.2) | 240 (6.5) | |
| High school | 2974 (45.2) | 1389 (48.1) | 1585 (43.0) | |
| University (<2 years) | 437 (6.6) | 268 (9.3) | 169 (4.6) | |
| University (≥2 years) | 2576 (39.2) | 880 (30.5) | 1696 (46.0) | |
| Children at home 2008 | 0.202 | |||
| No | 2204 (50.2) | 1436 (49.7) | 1868 (50.6) | |
| 1 Child | 1169 (17.8) | 509 (17.6) | 660 (17.9) | |
| 2 Children | 1584 (24.1) | 698 (24.2) | 886 (24.0) | |
| 3 Children | 428 (6.5) | 198 (6.8) | 230 (6.2) | |
| ≥ 4 Children | 94 (1.4) | 48 (1.7) | 47 (1.3) | |
| Full-time employment | 5125 (79.4) | 2639 (93.4) | 2486 (68.5) | <0.0001 |
| Poor self-rated health 2010 | 1303 (20.1) | 600 (21.07) | 703 (19.27) | 0.019 |
| Emotional exhaustion 2010 | 1494 (23.3) | 522 (18.54) | 972 (27.06) | <0.0001 |
| Problem drinking 2010 | 383 (5.9) | 236 (8.28) | 147 (4.05) | <0.0001 |
a: P-values from Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test.
b: chi-square test.