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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Occup Environ Med. 2019 Jun 5;76(8):511–518. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2018-105562

Table 4.

All-cause mortality and lung cancer mortality by duration of employment, time since hire, time since termination, age at hire, birth cohort and hiring period

All-cause mortality Lung Cancer Mortality

Obs SMR 95%CI Obs SMR 95%CI
Duration of Employment

< 2 years 1181 1.27 1.20 - 1.34 149 1.69 1.42 - 1.97
2 - <10 years 1579 1.30 1.24 - 1.37 247 2.15 1.88 - 2.42
≥ 10 years 1451 1.14 1.08 - 1.20 309 2.39 2.12 - 2.65
Time since hire

< 15 years 238 52.11 45.46 - 58.76 18 46.62 24.99 - 68.25
15 - < 25 years 1096 2.39 2.24 - 2.53 187 5.09 4.36 - 5.83
25 - < 35 years 2162 1.92 1.83 - 2.00 350 3.22 2.88 - 3.56
≥ 35 years 715 0.39 0.36 - 0.42 150 0.80 0.67 - 0.93
Time since termination

< 15 years 1124 3.30 3.11 - 3.49 189 5.68 4.86 - 6.49
15 - < 25 years 1750 1.31 1.25 - 1.37 310 2.40 2.14 - 2.67
≥ 25 years 1337 0.77 0.73 - 0.81 206 1.21 1.05 - 1.38
Age at hire

< 25 years 825 1.24 1.15 - 1.32 134 2.04 1.70 - 2.39
25 - < 35 years 1554 1.36 1.29 - 1.42 310 2.29 2.03 - 2.54
≥ 35 years 1832 1.14 1.09 - 1.19 261 1.99 1.75 - 2.23
Birth Cohort

1940 - 1950+ 481 1.09 1.00 - 1.19 28 1.47 1.02 - 2.13
1930 - 1939 1049 1.16 1.09 - 1.23 141 2.01 1.68 - 2.35
1920 - 1929 1610 1.35 1.29 - 1.42 342 2.35 2.10 - 2.60
1910 - 1919 680 1.23 1.13 - 1.32 155 2.10 1.77 - 2.43
1890 - 1909 391 1.19 1.07 - 1.31 39 1.63 1.19 - 2.22
Hiring period

1946 - 1952 821 1.38 1.28 - 1.47 154 2.63 2.21 - 3.04
1953 - 1962 2579 1.20 1.15 - 1.25 435 2.02 1.83 - 2.21
1963 + 811 1.20 1.12 - 1.29 116 1.98 1.62 - 2.34

Obs = Observed, SMR = Standardized Mortality Ratio, CI = Confidence Interval