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. 2017 Sep 9;28(3):465–474. doi: 10.1007/s10926-017-9722-1

Table 1.

Description of the six populations for gender, age, job type, health status, and work role functioning

N CDP N = 229 CMDP N = 158 GWP N = 553 OIPP N = 154 SWP N = 1055 UWP N = 284
Age, M (SD) 50.8 (7.9) 42.3 (9.6) 45.1 (10.6) 53.7 (6.2) 44.0 (10.1) 45.6 (10.9)
Gender, N (%)
 Male 91 (1.3) 65 (41.1) 338 (70.2) 93 (60.4) 922 (87.4) 125 (44.0)
 Female 135 (59.0) 93 (58.9) 165 (29.8) 52 (33.8) 117 (11.1) 159 (56.0)
Job type, N (%)
 Manual 23 (1.3) a 156 (28.2) 0 (0) 256 (24.3) a
 Non manual 139 (60.7) a 257 (46.5) 145 (100) 91 (8.6) 110 (61.3)
 Mixed 64 (27.9) a 5 (0.9) 0 (0) 638 (60.5) a
Health status, N (%)
 Excellent 8 (3.5) 3 (1.9) 58 (10.5) 21 (13.6) 11 (1.0) 34 (12.0)
 Very good 33 (14.4) 15 (9.5) 152 (27.5) 42 (27.3) 88 (8.3) 87 (30.6)
 Good 129 (56.3) 92 (58.2) 281 (50.8) 71 (46.1) 291 (27.6) 127 (44.7)
 Fair 53 (23.1) 42 (27.2) 55 (9.9) 10 (6.5) 91 (8.6) 30 (10.6)
 Poor 3 (1.3) 2 (1.3) 3 (0.5) 1 (0.6) 4 (0.4) 5 (1.8)
Work role functioning total score, M (SD) 77.3 (17.6) b 84.2 (15.8) 83.0 (12.6) 86.9 (13.7) 84.8 (14.4)
 Work scheduling demands 77.3 (21.3) 65.3 (24.3) 83.0 (21.7) 80.9 (22.1) 86.6 (17.6) 83.9 (19.8)
 Work output demands 74.6 (23.0) 64.7 (23.7) 81.0 (20.9) 76.6 (16.7) 84.7 (18.0) 79.8 (20.5)
 Physical demands 83.7 (19.3) 90.5 (21.9) 87.1 (19.6) 94.0 (13.2) 89.0 (16.9) 91.6 (15.6)
 Mental and social demands 75.4 (21.2) 64.1 (20.5) 85.2 (17.5) 85.8 (12.9) 87.5 (15.3) 85.0 (15.6)
 Flexibility demands 78.4 (20.9) b 84.0 (20.7) 80.3 (16.1) 87.4 (15.8) 85.1 (16.8)

Numbers might be lower/not add up to 100% due to missing

CDP cancer diagnosis population, CMDP common mental disorder population, GWP general working population, OIPP occupational and insurance physicians population, SWP shift worker population, UWP university workers population

aNo information available

bFlexibility demands items missing, therefore no comparison score available