Table 2.

Prevalence of skin-related complaints reported by the tannery workers of Kanpur City, India, 2015

Background variables	Red and swollen hands or fingers	Vesicles on the hands or between the figures	Scaling hands or fingers with fissures	Itching hands or fingers with fissures	Number (n)
Age in years
16-24	3.5	3.5	0.0	0.0	29
25-35	6.8	8.7	20.4	20.4	103
36+	15.8	14.5	20.4	26.3	152
Education
Illiterate	15.5	14.4	22.5	28.9	187
Up to primary	5.3	13.2	21.1	15.79	38
Middle school	4.0	0.0	4.0	0.0	25
High school and above	0.0	0.0	3.0	3.0	33
Media exposure
Low exposure	10.8	9.2	15.4	24.6	65
Medium exposure	15.9	16.7	26.1	28.3	138
High exposure	3.7	3.7	7.4	7.4	81
Work experience
Up to 5 yr.	7.1	6.1	8.2	10.2	98
6 to 10 yr.	19.2	14.9	19.2	24.5	96
11 to 20 yr.	4.7	12.5	23.4	26.6	64
20 more yr.	14.3	14.3	39.3	39.3	28
Type of work
Beam housework	12.5	16.7	16.7	25	24
Wet finishing work	14.3	12.9	25.7	22.8	70
Dry finishing work	4.9	7.7	16.8	20.3	144
Miscellaneous work	25.5	17	12.8	21.3	48
Type of Job contract
Temporary job (daily wages)	11.9	12.3	20.2	23.3	255
Permanent job	6.5	3.2	3.2	6.5	31
Dermal exposure to chemicals
No exposure	2.5	5.1	3.8	6.3	80
Low exposure	16.2	12.3	10.8	11.5	149
Moderate/High exposure	10.5	17.5	57.9	68.4	57
	11.3	11.3	18.3	21.5	284