Table 2.
Study population distributed by level of physical workload in middle age and prevalence of disability pension in each level of physical workload among middle-aged men and women
| Full cohorts | No of persons with information on physical workload 1985–1990 and included in the analyses | Disability pensioners 1991–2009 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical workload | Total | Musculoskeletal | Psychiatric | Other | ||||||
| n | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Men | High | 1808 | 229 | 12.7 | 115 | 6.4 | 30 | 1.7 | 84 | 4.7 |
| Medium–high | 1134 | 150 | 13.2 | 52 | 4.6 | 29 | 2.6 | 69 | 6.1 | |
| Medium–low | 1896 | 142 | 7.5 | 38 | 2.0 | 36 | 1.9 | 68 | 3.6 | |
| Low | 1490 | 99 | 6.6 | 19 | 1.3 | 35 | 2.4 | 45 | 3.0 | |
| All | ||||||||||
| 11,100 | 6328 | 620 | 9.8 | 224 | 3.5 | 130 | 2.1 | 266 | 4.2 | |
| Women | High | 482 | 147 | 30.3 | 82 | 17.0 | 23 | 4.8 | 42 | 8.7 |
| Medium–high | 1163 | 261 | 22.4 | 132 | 11.4 | 47 | 4.0 | 82 | 7.1 | |
| Medium–low | 1666 | 257 | 15.4 | 104 | 6.2 | 73 | 4.4 | 80 | 4.8 | |
| Low | 2286 | 341 | 14.9 | 115 | 5.0 | 104 | 4.6 | 122 | 5.3 | |
| All | ||||||||||
| 10,709 | 5597 | 1006 | 18.0 | 433 | 7.7 | 247 | 4.4 | 326 | 5.8 | |