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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Scand J Public Health. 2012 Nov 16;41(2):126–133. doi: 10.1177/1403494812465029

Table 1. Demographic characteristics of the survey population (weighted).

Overall (N=5000)
N %
Age (years)
18-24 426 8.5
25-34 939 18.8
35-44 916 18.3
45-54 883 17.7
>55 1834 36.7
Missing 2 0.0
Age at last education(years)
≤ 19 2585 56.7
20-25 1553 34.1
≥ 26 422 9.3
Missing 440 0.1
Job category (ISCO-88)
Professionals(ISCO 1, 2) 1289 25.8
Technical position(ISCO3) 226 4.5
Skilled workers(ISCO 4,5,6,7,8,10) 2016 40.3
Unskilled workers(ISCO 9) 471 9.4
Homemaker 731 14.6
Full-time student 267 5.3
Marital status
Married 2011 40.2
Divorced 493 9.9
Widowed 629 12.6
Separated 201 4.0
Never married 1057 21.2
A member of an unmarried couple 507 10.1
Refused 102 2.0
Income
Well below the median 460 9.2
Below the median 1175 23.5
Around the median 1381 27.6
Above the median 799 16.0
Well above the median 167 3.3
Refuse to answer 1018 20.4
Smoking status
Smoke every day or almost 787 15.7
Smoke some days or occasionally 206 4.1
Former smoker 1072 21.5
Never smoker 2935 58.7

ISCO-88: International Standard Classification of Occupation, 1988 version