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. 2015 Oct;21(4):328–332. doi: 10.1080/10773525.2015.1122369

Table 1.

Distribution of sociodemographic and occupational characteristics in a sample of Spanish and foreign workers in Spain, 2007 and 2011

Spanish (n = 16 732) Foreign (n = 2108)
Year 2007 (n = 9.080) Year 2011 (n = 7.652) Year 2007 (n = 1.322) Year 2011 (n = 786)
% % P-value % % P-value
Sex  < 0.010** 0.044
Male 59.7 54.1 59.3 54.7
Female 40.3 45.9 40.7 45.3
Age  < 0.001***  < 0.001***
16–24 9.0 3.1 10.8 3.6
25–34 28.3 20.1 40.9 34.5
35–44 30.6 32.6 30.0 36.6
45–54 21.3 29.2 13.5 19.0
>54 10.9 15.0 4.8 6.3
Educational level (years of education)  < 0.001*** 0.746
6–12 23.1 29.1 25.2 24.9
13–18 37.9 36.6 41.0 42.7
19+ 39.1 34.4 33.8 32.4
Employment status  < 0.001***  < 0.010**
Permanent employee with social security 59.8 67.1 49.7 56.1
Temporary employee with social security 20.1 14.7 37.4 29.1
Self-employee without workers 14.5 13.9 10.2 11.2
Self-employee with workers 5.6 4.3 2.7 3.6
Economic activity  < 0.001***  < 0.001***
Services 65.9 75.1 60.8 73.9
Nonservices 34.1 24.9 39.2 26.3
Occupational social class  < 0.001*** 0.226
Nonmanual 61.2 53.2 82.6 80.3
Manual 38.8 46.8 17.5 19.7