Table 1.

Characteristics of men and women in HEAF (n=4909)

	Men (n=2363)		Women (n=2546)
	N*	%	N*	%
Age (in years)	57.8 (4.2)†	–	57.1 (3.9)†	–
Occupational social class	–	–	–	–
Higher managerial	989	41.9	1044	41.0
Intermediate occupations	500	21.2	837	32.9
Routine/manual occupations	840	35.6	647	25.4
Employment status	–	–	–	–
Self-employed	540	22.9	316	12.4
Employed, company size: <500 persons	975	41.3	1252	49.2
Employed, company size: ≥500 persons	833	35.3	963	37.8
Heavy physical workload	1093	46.3	727	28.6
Rarely or never choice at work	393	16.6	557	21.9
Job dissatisfaction	171	7.2	155	6.1
Job insecurity	1136	48.1	1179	46.3
Difficulty coping with work’s mental demands	670	28.4	846	33.2
Difficulties with finances	157	6.6	218	8.6
Self-perceived health status, fair/poor	404	17.1	430	16.9
Depressive symptoms, CESD-score ≥16	456	19.3	664	26.1

*For some variables, data were missing for a maximum of 45 men and 56 women.

†Mean and SD.

Percentage values are relative to total sample size for each gender group.

HEAF, Health and Employment after Fifty.