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