Sickness absence after work accidents and post-traumatic stress among white-collar workers in the retail and wholesale industry; a longitudinal Swedish cohort study

Table 1 Sociodemographic and work-related information on the study cohort of privately employed white-collar workers in the retail and wholesale industry, at baseline in 2012

听	Total			Women		Men
听	n		%	n	%	n	%
All	192,077		100	85,356	100	106,721	100
Sex	听		听	听	听	听	听
Women	85,356		44.44	听	听	听	听
Men	106,721		55.56	听	听	听	听
Age	听		听	听	听	听	听
18鈥�24 years	8145		4.24	4485	5.25	3660	3.43
25鈥�34 years	40,881		21.28	20,277	23.76	20,604	19.31
35鈥�44 years	60,739		31.62	26,864	31.47	33,875	31.74
45鈥�54 years	50,160		26.11	20,759	24.32	29,401	27.55
55鈥�64 years	29,607		15.41	11,986	14.04	17,621	16.51
65鈥�67 years	2545		1.32	985	1.15	1560	1.46
Type of living area	听		听	听	听	听	听
Large city	99,445		51.77	46,242	54.18	53,203	49.85
Medium-sized town	60,893		31.70	25,431	29.79	35,462	33.23
Small town or rural	31,739		16.52	13,683	16.03	18,056	16.92
Educational level (years)	听		听	听	听	听	听
Elementary (0鈥�9 years)*	14,612		7.61	4778	5.60	9834	9.21
High school (10鈥�12 years)	99,554		51.83	42,259	49.51	57,295	53.69
University/college (>鈥�12 years)	77,911		40.56	38,319	44.89	39,592	37.10
Country of birth	听		听	听	听	听	听
Sweden	175,508		91.37	76,709	89.87	98,799	92.58
Other Nordic country	4243		2.21	2324	2.72	1919	1.80
Other EU-25	3457		1.80	1685	1.97	1772	1.66
Rest of the world**	8869		4.62	4638	5.43	4231	3.96
Family situation		听	听	听	听	听	听
Married/cohabiting without children at home		25,595	13.33	11,344	13.29	14,251	13.35
Married/cohabiting with children at home		96,068	50.02	40,530	47.48	55,538	52.04
Single without children		58,416	30.41	25,457	29.82	32,959	30.88
Single with children at home		11,998	6.25	8025	9.4	3973	3.72

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