Table 2.
Distribution of the study population by occupation
| Occupation | Men % |
Women % |
Total % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No neck pain | Neck pain | No neck pain | Neck pain | No neck pain | Neck pain | |
| Service, care, and shop sales workers | 8 | 8 | 27 | 30 | 16 | 22 |
| Technicians and associated professionals, nurses | 22 | 17 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 21 |
| Professionals (e.g., teachers, computer technicians) | 21 | 15 | 25 | 20 | 23 | 18 |
| Clerks, office, warehouses workers | 4 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 12 |
| Plant and machine operators | 14 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 |
| Craft and related, trade workers, miners, construction workers | 15 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 |
| Managers, legislators, senior officials | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Elementary occupations, janitors, cleaners, etc. | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
N, 3212; classification of occupations was made according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations.