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. 2021 Aug 12;57(5):1097–1106. doi: 10.1007/s00127-021-02152-3

Table 2.

Work- and health-related characteristics stratified by sector of employment and occupational class, in individuals aged 19–29 years residing in Sweden in 2009. Absolute numbers and column percent

Work and health-related characteristics Private sector Public sector
All Manual workers Non-manual workers All Manual workers Non-manual workers
All 522,137 400,140 121,997 141,446 84,114 57,332
Work-related characteristicsa
 Employment branch
 Industry occupations 85,698 (16) 67,504 (17) 18,194 (15) 290 (0) 210 (0) 80 (0)
 Service occupations 158,012 (30) 89,631 (22) 68,381 (56) 24,970 (18) 8373 (10) 16,597 (29)
 Wholesale and retail trade; Accommodation and food service activities 148,857 (29) 132,254 (33) 16,603 (14) 243 (0) 227 (0) 16 (0)
 Transportation 38,517 (7) 33,997 (8) 4520 (4) 241 (0) 104 (0) 137 (0)
 Construction 51,548 (10) 47,565 (12) 3983 (3) 1,017 (1) 757 (1) 260 (0)
 Education 11,519 (2) 5803 (1) 5716 (5) 34,843 (25) 15,505 (18) 19,338 (34)
 Health and social services 26,715 (5) 22,257 (6) 4458 (4) 76,358 (54) 55,926 (66) 20,432 (36)
 Missing 1,271 (0) 1,129 (0) 142 (0) 3,484 (2) 3,012 (4) 472 (1)
Health-related characteristics
 Psychiatric morbidityb 9346 (2) 7785 (2) 1561 (1) 3341 (2) 2497 (3) 844 (1)
 Somatic morbidityc 123,643 (24) 96,505 (24) 27,138 (22) 38,893 (27) 24,049 (29) 14,844 (26)
Work disability factorsa
 No sickness absence (SA) 488,859 (94) 372,587 (93) 116,272 (95) 129,352 (91) 76,150 (91) 53,202 (93)
 Short-term SA (0–90 days) 28,191 (5) 23,282 (6) 4909 (4) 10,441 (7) 6765 (8) 3676 (6)
 Long-term SA (> 90 days) 5087 (1) 4271 (1) 816 (1) 1653 (1) 1199 (1) 454 (1)

aIn 2009

bDefined by ICD-10 codes F00–99

cDefined by ATC-codes A10, N03A excluding mood stabilizers; and/or any ICD-10 code, excluding codes F00–99, O80 and R00–99