Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of job-related variables
| Migraineurs | Controls | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Women | Men | |
| Job | 1 157 | 412 | 145 331 | 131 910 |
| Managers and Senior Officials | 147 (12.7%) | 75 (18.2%) | 18 482 (12.7%) | 29 954 (22.7%) |
| Professional Occupations | 234 (20.2%) | 95 (23.1%) | 32 052 (22.1%) | 33 462 (25.4%) |
| Associate Professional, | 241 (20.8%) | 69 (16.7%) | 28 529 (19.6%) | 19 592 (14.9%) |
| Technical Occupations | ||||
| Administrative and | 252 (21.8%) | 31 (7.5%) | 35 122 (24.2%) | 8 197 (6.2%) |
| Secretarial Occupations | ||||
| Skilled Trades Occupations | 11 (0.6%) | 70 (17.0%) | 2 451 (1.7%) | 17 908 (13.6%) |
| Personal Service Occupations | 143 (12.4%) | 10 (2.4%) | 13 675 (9.4%) | 2 726 (2.1%) |
| Sales and Customer Service Occupations | 66 (5.7%) | 4 (1.0%) | 7 098 (4.9%) | 2 249 (1.7%) |
| Process, Plant and Machine Operatives | 13 (0.7%) | 27 (6.6%) | 1 558 (0.7%) | 10 702 (8.1%) |
| Elementary Occupations | 50 (4.3%) | 31 (7.5%) | 6 364 (4.4%) | 71 20 (5.4%) |
| Heavy manual or physical work | 1 048 | 362 | 127 964 | 118 577 |
| Never/rarely | 719 (68.6%) | 207 (57.2%) | 90 197 (70.5%) | 71 449 (60.3%) |
| Sometimes | 225 (21.5%) | 75 (20.7%) | 25 591 (20.0%) | 26 867 (22.7%) |
| Usually | 55 (5.2%) | 39 (10.8%) | 6 226 (4.9%) | 10 258 (8.7%) |
| Always | 49 (4.7%) | 41 (11.3%) | 5 950 (4.6%) | 10 003 (8.4%) |
| Work involves mainly | 1 048 | 362 | 127 982 | 118 510 |
| walking/standing | ||||
| Never/rarely | 362 (34.5%) | 115 (31.8%) | 48 128 (37.6%) | 39 967 (33.7%) |
| Sometimes | 294 (28.1%) | 103 (28.5%) | 37 579 (29.4%) | 37 906 (32.0%) |
| Usually | 173 (16.5%) | 56 (15.5%) | 18 235 (14.2%) | 17 965 (15.2%) |
| Always | 219 (20.9%) | 88 (24.3%) | 24 040 (18.8%) | 22 672 (19.1%) |
| Job involves shift work | 1 045 | 360 | 127 815 | 118 403 |
| Never/rarely | 865 (82.8%) | 288 (80.0%) | 109 261 (85.5%) | 95 321 (80.5%) |
| Sometimes | 70 (6.7%) | 31 (8.6%) | 7 940 (6.2%) | 10 031 (8.5%) |
| Usually | 20 (1.9%) | 7 (1.9%) | 2 459 (1.9%) | 2 697 (2.3%) |
| Always | 90 (8.6%) | 34 (9.4%) | 8 155 (6.4%) | 10 354 (8.7%) |
| Job involves night shift work | 182 | 73 | 18 737 | 23 212 |
| Never/rarely | 101 (55.5%) | 30 (41.1%) | 10 711 (57.2%) | 9 805 (42.2%) |
| Sometimes | 41 (22.5%) | 25 (34.2%) | 4 569 (24.4%) | 7 497 (32.3%) |
| Usually | 12 (6.6%) | 7 (9.6%) | 1 204 (6.4%) | 2 188 (9.4%) |
| Always | 28 (15.4%) | 11 (15.1%) | 2 253 (12.0%) | 3 722 (16.0%) |
| Job satisfaction | 425 | 142 | 54 613 | 47 353 |
| Extremely happy | 37 (8.7%) | 13 (9.2%) | 4 305 (7.9%) | 4 151 (8.8%) |
| Very happy | 155 (36.5%) | 51 (35.9%) | 20 053 (36.7%) | 16 993 (35.9%) |
| Moderately happy | 200 (47.1%) | 57 (40.1%) | 25 785 (47.2%) | 20 968 (44.3%) |
| Moderately unhappy | 24 (5.6%) | 13 (9.2%) | 3 354 (6.1%) | 3 818 (8.1%) |
| Very unhappy | 6 (1.4%) | 4 (2.8%) | 757 (1.4%) | 1 017 (2.1%) |
| Extremely unhappy | 3 (0.2%) | 4 (2.8%) | 359 (0.7%) | 406 (0.9%) |