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. 2019 Mar 27;57(6):701–710. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2018-0031

Table 1. Demographic characteristics according to employment category of 43,865 people (21,649 men and 22,216 women).

Men Women


Unemployed Not in the labor force Regularly employed Non-regularly employed Self-employed Others p Unemployed Not in the labor force Regularly employed Non-regularly employed Self-employed Others p
N 1,075 341 15,056 2,083 2,808 286 3,483 2,581 6,853 7,087 1,729 483
Age of persons
20–29 34.8 47.5 16.0 39.8 7.1 20.6 <0.0001 16.9 8.8 27.5 16.4 7.0 12.8 <0.0001
30–39 16.3 7.9 28.8 23.7 23.0 22.4 36.0 21.2 27.4 25.0 20.5 23.4
40–49 19.1 10.0 28.3 14.8 30.4 24.1 26.0 21.3 23.8 30.6 29.2 30.2
50–59 29.9 34.6 26.9 21.7 39.5 32.9 21.1 48.7 21.4 28.0 43.3 33.5
Marital status
Married 27.4 17.6 69.8 30.1 74.5 52.8 <0.0001 83.6 89.2 46.5 68.3 77.2 72.3 <0.0001
Single 65.8 76.0 27.2 64.5 21.3 42.3 11.0 7.4 43.9 22.4 14.3 22.0
Divorced or widowed 6.9 6.5 3.0 5.5 4.2 4.9 5.5 3.5 9.5 9.3 8.5 5.8
Education level
Junior high school 12.7 10.9 4.2 8.8 10.2 11.2 <0.0001 5.6 6.6 2.3 4.9 5.3 7.3 <0.0001
High school 36.2 26.7 37.9 39.9 41.1 43.0 39.3 40.9 32.2 43.8 41.6 42.7
Junior college or technical upper secondary school 11.1 6.2 12.9 14.7 15.3 12.2 31.5 29.5 33.9 30.6 29.6 26.9
University or graduate school 34.1 49.9 37.1 29.4 23.2 25.9 16.9 16.9 23.5 13.0 13.0 14.5
Mental illness
Yes 7.3 6.5 1.2 1.3 0.7 2.4 <0.0001 3.9 4.1 1.4 1.7 1.2 2.1 <0.0001
No 92.7 93.5 98.8 98.7 99.3 97.6 96.1 95.9 98.6 98.3 98.8 97.9
Smoking status
Smoking 21 or more cigarettes per day 8.7 2.4 9.2 7.1 13.6 7.0 <0.0001 1.4 1.0 0.8 1.5 1.7 1.0 <0.0001
Smoking 20 or less cigarettes per day 27.8 18.2 30.4 32.3 27.0 30.3 12.9 7.9 12.3 13.9 12.3 12.0
Non-smokers 49.6 63.3 50.1 47.7 45.9 48.2 78.2 80.8 78.8 75.5 73.1 73.9
Parental status
In need of long-term care 5.4 9.7 0.3 1.1 0.4 4.5 <0.0001 1.0 2.6 0.3 0.3 0.2 2.3 <0.0001
Not in need of long-term care 94.6 90.3 99.7 98.9 99.6 95.5 99.0 97.4 99.7 99.7 99.8 97.7
Household expenditure*
Under 25 percentile 40.7 37.5 13.8 25.9 17.1 23.1 <0.0001 27.0 20.2 24.7 23.7 25.9 22.6 <0.0001
25 to 50 percentile 26.6 23.5 32.9 31.6 30.9 33.6 27.2 22.4 21.7 23.2 21.8 22.2
50 to 75 percentile 14.8 17.0 27.5 21.0 24.4 21.7 26.6 29.3 26.4 27.3 23.4 27.3
75 percentile or over 11.3 15.3 20.8 16.0 21.4 16.4 14.9 23.0 21.9 20.3 22.7 21.5
Insomnia related chronic diseases
With diseases 9.5 10.6 8.7 5.4 8.5 7.0 <0.0001 6.9 11.6 6.2 7.5 9.1 8.9 <0.0001
Without diseases 90.5 89.4 91.3 94.6 91.5 93.0 93.1 88.4 93.8 92.5 90.9 91.1

p values: χ2 test. *25 percentile (men; under 150,000 yen, women; under 170,000 yen), 25 to 50 percentile (men; 150,000 to 250,000 yen, women; 170,000 to 250,000 yen), 50 to 75 percentile (men; 250,000 to 335,000 yen, women; 250,000 to 350,000 yen) and 75 percentile (men; 335,000 yen, women; 350,000 yen) or over.