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. 2017 Jul 24;12:19. doi: 10.1186/s12995-017-0165-6

Table 1.

Characteristics according to working life status

Full-time work (1) n = 967 Unemployed (2) n = 197 Work disability (3) n = 334 Retired (4) n = 159 p-value 1 vs. 2 p-value 1 vs. 3 p-value 1 vs. 4
Age, mean years (SD) 44.1 (10.2) 46.2 (11.0) 57.9 (8.2) 62.9 (3.8) 0.064 <.001 <.001
Gender 0.007 0.346 0.028
 Women 568 (58.7) 136 (69.0) 206 (61.7) 108 (67.9)
 Men 399 (41.3) 61 (31.0) 128 (38.3) 51 (32.1)
Smoking status 0.004 0.002 <.001
 Never smoker 432 (45.0) 70 (36.1) 132 (40.0) 92 (58.2)
 Ex-smoker 217 (22.6) 40 (20.6) 98 (29.7) 38 (24.1)
 Current smoker 155 (16.1) 52 (26.8) 66 (20.0) 20 (12.7)
 Occasional smoker 157 (16.3) 32 (16.5) 34 (10.3) 8 (5.1)
Professional status <.001 <.001 0.001
 Self-employed 98 (10.2) 10 (5.2) 25 (8.0) 7 (4.6)
 Upper level nonmanual worker 199 (20.7) 11 (5.8) 21 (6.7) 24 (15.9)
 Lower level nonmanual worker 284 (29.5) 50 (26.2) 59 (18.8) 35 (23.2)
 Manual worker 353 (36.7) 113 (59.2) 195 (62.1) 79 (52.3)
 Working from home, student, other 28 (2.9) 7 (3.7) 14 (4.5) 6 (4.0)
Physical exercise frequency 0.133 <.001 0.007
 Not at all 50 (5.2) 14 (7.3) 33 (10.1) 6 (3.8)
 Less than once a week 224 (23.3) 38 (19.7) 60 (18.3) 24 (15.3)
 1–2 times a week 423 (44.0) 75 (38.9) 125 (38.2) 64 (40.8)
 > = 3 times a week 265 (27.5) 66 (34.2) 109 (33.3) 63 (40.1)

Data is presented as n (%) unless otherwise stated