Table 1.

Characteristics for the cohort of 4 669 235 women and men aged 20–64 and living in Sweden in 1995

	Women (n = 2 275 987, 48.7%)		Men (n = 2 393 248, 51.3%)
	n	%	n	%
Age (years)
20-34	872 572	38.3	915 795	38.3
35-44	544 934	23.9	573 897	24.0
45-54	549 354	24.1	590 805	24.7
55-64	309 127	13.6	312 751	13.1
Educational level1
Low	469 033	20.6	580 188	24.2
Medium	1 145 377	50.3	1 181 081	49.4
High	641 030	28.2	605 739	25.3
Missing data	20 547	0.9	26 240	1.1
Type of place of residency
Rural/small	629 223	27.6	685 660	28.6
Middle-sized city	820 991	36.1	867 944	36.3
Large	825 773	36.3	839 644	35.1
Region of birth
Sweden	1 990 505	87.5	2 103 036	87.9
Other Nordic	100 027	4.4	85 754	3.6
EU25	49 742	2.2	50 887	2.1
Other country	135 611	6.0	153 363	6.4
Missing data	102	0.0	208	0.0
No. of sick-leave days2 in 1995
0	1 919 698	84.3	2 135 089	89.2
1-15	137 973	6.1	96 883	4.0
16-75	126 294	5.5	88 137	3.7
76-165	43 758	1.9	31 834	1.3
166-365	48 264	2.1	41 305	1.7
No. of days with hospital in patient care in 1990-1995
0	1 588 412	69.8	1 872 333	78.2
1-5	343 370	15.1	302 106	12.6
6+	344 205	15.1	218 809	9.1

¹Low = ≤9 years; Medium = 10–12 years; High = 13+ years;

²Days reimbursed by the Social Insurance Agency, usually from the 15^th day of a sick-leave spell.