Table 1. Descriptive statistics of 18034 non-pensioned women and men aged 18–60 years, living in Sweden, and with at least one outpatient care visit due to depression in 2006, including those with disability pension due to mental and somatic diagnoses.

Baseline characteristics	All		Disability Pension
			mental	somatic
Socio-demographic factors	N	%	%	%
Sex
Women	10686	59.2	61.6	56.2
Men	7348	40.8	38.4	43.8
Age group, years
18–24	3680	20.4	13.9	6.2
25–34	4739	26.3	18.3	15.0
35–44	4767	26.4	28.5	27.8
45–54	3450	19.1	26.0	31.7
55–60	1398	7.7	13.3	19.3
Educational level, years
Low (≤9)	3947	21.8	25.6	24.5
Medium (10–12)	8763	48.6	50.2	51.0
High (≥12)	5140	28.5	23.4	24.3
Missing	184	1.0	0.7	0.2
Family situation 1
Married/living with partner & children	5010	27.8	29.1	36.6
Married/living with partner no children	1196	6.6	9.3	13.6
Single no children	8343	46.3	43.4	36.4
Single with children	2286	12.6	14.1	10.9
18–20 year olds living with parents	1199	6.6	4.0	2.5
Area of residence 2
Big cities	7402	41.0	40.5	29.2
Medium-sized cities	6219	34.4	32.1	40.9
Small cities/villages	4413	24.5	27.4	29.8
Country of birth
Sweden	14256	79.0	75.2	72.6
Other Northern European countries	492	2.7	3.3	2.9
EU25 without North. Europ countries	427	2.4	2.9	2.5
Rest of the world	2859	15.8	18.7	22.0
Previous health care and treatment, 2001 – 2005
Outpatient care, mental diagnosis
No care	10826	60.0	53.6	65.6
< =  median (3 visits)	3070	17.0	21.9	20.8
> median visits	4138	23.0	24.6	13.6
Outpatient care, somatic diagnosis
No care	2670	14.8	12.7	9.1
< =  median (6 visits)	7554	41.9	45.2	38.9
> median	7810	43.3	42.1	52.1
Inpatient care, mental diagnosis
No care	15037	83.4	79.6	89.3
< =  median (13 days)	1458	8.1	8.4	5.1
> median	1539	8.5	12.0	5.6
Inpatient care, somatic diagnosis
No care	12033	66.7	65.1	48.1
< =  median (3 days)	2772	15.4	18.0	19.3
> median visits	3229	17.9	16.9	32.5
Sickness absence, days, 2005
0	9723	53.9	30.9	25.3
1–14	680	3.8	2.3	3.7
15–90	1973	10.9	11.8	13.0
90–181	1150	6.4	9.3	8.6
−365	4508	25.0	45.8	49.4
Antidepressant prescription, 2005
0	8853	49.1	37.8	44.0
> =  1	9181	50.9	62.2	56.0
Ongoing health care and treatment in 2006
Outpatient care, mental diagnosis
< =  median (2 visits)	6538	36.3	41.4	58.0
> median visits	11496	63.7	58.6	42.0
Outpatient care, somatic diagnosis
No care	7638	42.4	39.8	24.3
< =  median (2 visits)	3651	20.2	20.6	18.5
> median	6745	37.4	39.6	57.2
Inpatient care, mental diagnosis
No care	15524	86.1	81.4	87.4
< =  median (12 days)	1237	6.9	7.3	7.2
> median	1273	7.0	11.3	5.3
Inpatient care, somatic diagnosis
No care	15716	87.1	86.7	75.3
< =  median (2 days)	936	5.2	7.3	9.3
> median visits	1382	7.7	5.9	15.4
Sickness absence, days, 2006
0	7522	41.7	17.6	11.7
1–14	522	2.9	0.8	1.9
15–90	2197	12.2	3.8	6.0
90–181	1641	9.1	5.9	8.2
−365	6152	34.1	72.0	72.2
Antidepressant prescription, 2006
0	2782	15.4	11.8	8.6
> =  1	15252	84.6	88.2	91.4

¹children living at home; single includes single/divorced/separated/widowed;

²Area 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 [31].