Table 2.
Prevalence of manual handling operations stratified by the BLOSSFELD occupational groups and gender
| BLOSSFELD occupational group | Self-reported frequency of manual handling operations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never n (row %) |
Rarely n (row %) |
Sometimes n (row %) |
Often n (row %) |
Total n (row %) |
|
| Men (n = 8770) | |||||
| Agricultural occupations | 10 (5.3%) | 13 (7.0%) | 33 (17.6%) | 131 (70.1%) | 187 (100.0%) |
| Unskilled manual occupations | 79 (11.7%) | 72 (10.7%) | 122 (18.1%) | 400 (59.4%) | 673 (100.0%) |
| Skilled manual occupations | 50 (4.1%) | 81 (6.7%) | 198 (16.4%) | 878 (72.7%) | 1207 (100.0%) |
| Technicians | 175 (28.2%) | 106 (17.1%) | 125 (20.1%) | 215 (34.6%) | 621 (100.0%) |
| Engineers | 428 (55.7%) | 147 (19.1%) | 111 (14.5%) | 82 (10.7%) | 768 (100.0%) |
| Unskilled services | 166 (19.2%) | 144 (16.6%) | 174 (20.1%) | 382 (44.1%) | 866 (100.0%) |
| Skilled services | 163 (29.8%) | 85 (15.5%) | 105 (19.2%) | 194 (35.5%) | 547 (100.0%) |
| Semiprofessions | 234 (40.8%) | 101 (17.6%) | 102 (17.8%) | 137 (23.9%) | 574 (100.0%) |
| Professions | 291 (54.6%) | 67 (12.6%) | 69 (12.9%) | 106 (19.9%) | 533 (100.0%) |
| Unskilled commercial and administrational occupations | 95 (42.8%) | 34 (15.3%) | 37 (16.7%) | 56 (25.2%) | 222 (100.0%) |
| Skilled commercial and administrational occupations | 1054 (66.9%) | 197 (12.5%) | 126 (8.0%) | 198 (12.6%) | 1575 (100.0%) |
| Managers | 712 (71.4%) | 130 (13.0%) | 67 (6.7%) | 88 (8.8%) | 997 (100.0%) |
| All men | 3457 (39.4%) | 1177 (13.4%) | 1269 (14.5%) | 2867 (32.7%) | 8770 (100.0%) |
| Women (n = 5473) | |||||
| Agricultural occupations | 5 (8.1%) | 1 (1.6%) | 7 (11.3%) | 49 (79.0%) | 62 (100.0%) |
| Unskilled manual occupations | 19 (12.3%) | 12 (7.8%) | 20 (13.0%) | 103 (66.9%) | 154 (100.0%) |
| Skilled manual occupations | 14 (8.6%) | 8 (4.9%) | 32 (19.8%) | 108 (66.7%) | 162 (100.0%) |
| Technicians | 65 (34.2%) | 20 (10.5%) | 23 (12.1%) | 82 (43.2%) | 190 (100.0%) |
| Engineers | 82 (59.9%) | 22 (16.1%) | 16 (11.7%) | 17 (12.4%) | 137 (100.0%) |
| Unskilled services | 55 (24.6%) | 21 (9.4%) | 30 (13.4%) | 118 (52.7%) | 224 (100.0%) |
| Skilled services | 121 (26.1%) | 55 (11.9%) | 66 (14.2%) | 222 (47.8%) | 464 (100.0%) |
| Semiprofessions | 542 (38.2%) | 143 (10.1%) | 248 (17.5%) | 486 (34.2%) | 1419 (100.0%) |
| Professions | 316 (59.8%) | 57 (10.8%) | 54 (10.2%) | 101 (19.1%) | 528 (100.0%) |
| Unskilled commercial and administrational occupations | 116 (42.8%) | 19 (7.0%) | 30 (11.1%) | 106 (39.1%) | 271 (100.0%) |
| Skilled commercial and administrational occupations | 871 (65.4%) | 106 (8.0%) | 99 (7.4%) | 256 (19.2%) | 1332 (100.0%) |
| Managers | 427 (80.6%) | 30 (5.7%) | 20 (3.8%) | 53 (10.0%) | 530 (100.0%) |
| All women | 2633 (48.1%) | 494 (9.0%) | 645 (11.8%) | 1701 (31.1%) | 5473 (100.0%) |
| All men and women | 6090 (42.8%) | 1671 (11.7%) | 1914 (13.4%) | 4568 (32.1%) | 14,243 (100.0%) |
row% Row percentage