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. 2020 Feb 25;15(2):e0229221. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229221

Table 2. Adjusted competing risks analyses on the influence of health, demographic, and socio-economic factors and work conditions at baseline among employed persons on the likelihood of early retirement in the full sample, and stratified by gender.

Early retirement: Full sample (n = 1093/9811) Early retirement: Men (n = 520/4600) Early retirement: Women (n = 573/5211)
SHR (95% CI) p SHR (95% CI) p SHR (95% CI) p
Morbidity
 No LLI, No CMD 1.00 1.00 1.00
 LLI only 0.90 (0.76–1.07) 0.223 1.00 (0.79–1.27) 0.975 0.83 (0.66–1.05) 0.126
 CMD only 1.06 (0.83–1.36) 0.647 1.10 (0.73–1.65) 0.646 1.04 (0.76–1.43) 0.802
 LLI+CMD 1.10 (0.79–1.53) 0.561 1.73 (1.08–2.76) 0.022 0.81 (0.52–1.28) 0.372
Women 1.05 (0.92–1.19) 0.471 - - - -
Age 1.18 (1.15–1.21) <0.001 1.17 (1.13–1.21) <0.001 1.20 (1.16–1.23) <0.001
Born outside Sweden 0.79 (0.65–0.96) 0.018 0.64 (0.47–0.88) 0.005 0.93 (0.73–1.20) 0.600
Single, divorced, widowed 0.71 (0.62–0.80) <0.001 0.90 (0.74–1.08) 0.266 0.58 (0.49–0.70) <0.001
Education
 Primary 1.42 (1.15–1.75) 0.001 1.21 (0.89–1.65) 0.214 1.59 (1.20–2.10) 0.001
 Secondary 1.43 (1.23–1.66) <0.001 1.37 (1.11–1.69) 0.003 1.47 (1.19–1.82) <0.001
 University 1.00 1.00 1.00
Social occupational class
 High non-manual 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Intermediate non-manual 1.03 (0.88–1.20) 0.740 0.90 (0.72–1.13) 0.365 1.21 (0.97–1.51) 0.087
 Low non-manual 0.78 (0.64–0.95) 0.013 0.64 (0.43–0.96) 0.030 0.85 (0.66–1.10) 0.206
 Manual 0.60 (0.48–0.76) <0.001 0.56 (0.43–0.74) <0.001 0.78 (0.50–1.20) 0.256
Financial strain 0.90 (0.64–1.27) 0.561 1.19 (0.75–1.89) 0.468 0.76 (0.46–1.25) 0.275
Employment conditions
 Employed, great work freedom 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Employed, limited work freedom 1.43 (1.20–1.71) <0.001 1.17 (0.84–1.64) 0.350 1.57 (1.27–1.95) <0.001
 Self-employed 1.23 (1.02–1.48) 0.027 1.22 (0.98–1.52) 0.082 1.25 (0.90–1.73) 0.188

SHR: Subdistribution hazard ratio, LLI; limiting longstanding illness, CMD: common mental disorder. All models adjust for all variables presented in the table.