Table 1.
Distribution of socio-demographic variables among shiftworkers and traditional schedule workers: Survey of the Health of Wisconsin, 2008–2012, n=1, 593.
| Variable | N | Traditional worker (n=1,381) | Shiftworker (n=212) | p-value |
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| Age | ||||
| 21–39 years | 615 | 44% | 43% | |
| 40–59 years | 797 | 49% | 43% | 0.017 |
| ≥60 years | 181 | 7% | 14% | |
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| Male gender | 718 | 52% | 58% | 0.125 |
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| Non-white race/ethnicity | 153 | 11% | 13% | 0.59 |
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| Education1 | ||||
| <High school | 58 | 3% | 5% | |
| HS grad/GED | 283 | 17% | 22% | 0.001 |
| Some college | 659 | 40% | 49% | |
| College | 593 | 40% | 22% | |
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Education categories ‘HS grad/GED’ refer to having attained a high-school graduate’s levels of knowledge, and “Some college” refers to having completed one or more years of post-secondary education that did not terminating in a degree.