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. 2022 Oct 10;22:1884. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14311-5

Table 2.

Distributions of Occupational Characteristics derived from O*NET

Occupational Characteristics N (%)/Median (IQR)
Total Population People with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test
Total N 115,451 1746
Exposed to Disease or Infections Score, Median (IQR) 1.36(1.17, 2.11) 1.41 (1.18, 2.18)
Outdoors, Exposed to Weather Score, Median (IQR) 1.73(1.29, 2.77) 1.96 (1.34, 2.92)
Outdoors, Under Cover Score, Median (IQR) 1.41(1.15, 1.93) 1.47 (1.15, 2.05)
Physical Proximity Score, Median (IQR) 3.13(2.83, 3.78) 3.21 (2.89, 3.87)
Work can be done remotely [Dingel index]a, n(%)
 Yes 62,293(53.90) 797 (45.65)
 Maybe 7839(6.78) 110 (6.30)
 No 45,449(39.32) 839 (48.05)
Work can be done remotely [Baker index]a, n(%)
 Yes 27,531(23.8) 335 (19.19)
 No 88,050(76.2) 1411 (80.81)

a20,249 people had jobs that were identified as ‘Yes’ remote work by the Dingel index and ‘Yes’ remote work by the Baker index, including 230 people with a SARS-CoV-2 test

IQR Interquartile range, O*NET Occupational information network