Table 3.
Frequencies (N), prevalence (%) and prevalence rates (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of mental distress and a possible mental disorder in unemployed compared to employed youth in Belgium and the BCR from 1997 to 2013 (HIS-sample)
| Brussels Capital Region | Belgium | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployed | Employed | Unemployed/ Employed | Unemployed | Employed | Unemployed/ Employed | |||||
| Mental distress | ||||||||||
| Year | N | % | N | % | PR (CI) | N | % | N | % | PR (CI) |
| 1997 | 31 | 50.00 | 69 | 36.13 | 1.38 (1.01–1.89) | 85 | 42.08 | 253 | 30.12 | 1.40 (1.15–1.69) |
| 2001 | 9 | 33.33 | 56 | 31.46 | 1.06 (0.60–1.88) | 42 | 34.71 | 258 | 28.70 | 1.21 (0.93–1.58) |
| 2004 | 22 | 44.00 | 49 | 29.70 | 1.48 (1.00–2.19) | 67 | 43.51 | 207 | 26.20 | 1.66 (1.34–2.06) |
| 2008 | 18 | 40.91 | 56 | 32.18 | 1.27 (0.84–1.80) | 63 | 43.45 | 172 | 26.96 | 1.61 (1.29–2.02) |
| 2013 | 8 | 57.14 | 36 | 30.00 | 1.90 (1.12–3.23) | 38 | 46.91 | 127 | 27.97 | 1.68 (1.27–2.21) |
| Possible mental disorder | ||||||||||
| Year | N | % | N | % | PR (CI) | N | % | N | % | PR (CI) |
| 1997 | 18 | 29.03 | 32 | 16.75 | 1.73 (1.05–2.86) | 50 | 24.75 | 121 | 14.40 | 1.72 (1.28–2.30) |
| 2001 | 7 | 25.93 | 29 | 16.29 | 1.59 (0.78–3.27) | 29 | 23.97 | 126 | 14.02 | 1.71 (1.20–2.44) |
| 2004 | 11 | 22.00 | 27 | 16.36 | 1.34 (0.72–2.51) | 33 | 21.43 | 100 | 12.66 | 1.69 (1.19–2.41) |
| 2008 | 11 | 25.00 | 31 | 17.82 | 1.40 (0.77–2.56) | 43 | 29.66 | 77 | 12.07 | 2.46 (1.77–3.41) |
| 2013 | 5 | 35.71 | 14 | 11.67 | 3.06 (1.30–7.22) | 22 | 27.16 | 54 | 11.89 | 2.28 (1.48–3.53) |
PR (CI) in bold equals significant according to the p < 0.05 threshold