Use of outpatient and inpatient health care services by occupation—a register study of employees in Oulu, Finland

Rinne, Hanna; Laaksonen, Mikko; Blomgren, Jenni

doi:10.1186/s12913-022-07970-y

BMC Health Services Research

Table 2 The distribution of sociodemographic factors and proxies for health status by occupational group and occupation among female employees

From: Use of outpatient and inpatient health care services by occupation—a register study of employees in Oulu, Finland

	N	%	Mean age	Tertiary education %	Highest income 4th %	Married %	Chronic diseases %	Sickness absence %
Occupational group (1-digit level)
1 Managers	453	1.5	48.7	94	87	69	21	11
2 Professionals	9307	30.1	43.6	95	55	60	20	10
3 Technicians and associate professionals	8469	27.4	43.5	83	18	54	22	16
4 Clerical support workers	2420	7.8	44.7	62	11	50	27	13
5 Service and sales workers	7270	23.5	42.1	18	4	46	22	17
6 Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers	66	0.2	39.2	36	5	39	12	11
7 Craft and related trades workers	352	1.1	41.0	19	7	42	19	10
8 Plant and machine operators, and assemblers	637	2.1	43.4	17	18	43	23	16
9 Elementary occupations	1899	6.2	45.9	10	1	46	25	20
Occupation (2-digit-level, 20 most common occupations)
21 Science and engineering professionals	1013	3.3	41.0	94	55	55	16	8
22 Health professionals	1438	4.7	44.0	97	81	66	21	10
23 Teaching professionals	4073	13.2	44.3	96	47	63	21	11
24 Business and administration professionals	1214	3.9	43.8	92	57	57	22	8
25 Information and communications technology professionals	448	1.5	42.2	91	60	58	19	10
26 Legal, social and cultural professionals	1121	3.6	43.1	93	41	54	20	11
31 Science and engineering associate professionals	595	1.9	41.8	64	28	49	20	9
32 Health associate professionals	3943	12.8	43.2	98	18	56	22	19
33 Business and administration associate professionals	2388	7.7	44.9	73	21	53	23	13
34 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals	1389	4.5	42.5	65	8	51	24	17
41 General and keyboard clerks	796	2.6	46.5	59	8	52	33	12
42 Customer services clerks	842	2.7	43.5	61	13	47	23	13
43 Numerical and material recording clerks	492	1.6	44.0	69	11	50	25	12
44 Other clerical support workers	290	0.9	44.5	58	9	50	23	14
51 Personal service workers	1065	3.4	40.5	23	6	36	18	13
52 Sales workers	2134	6.9	38.8	27	5	41	17	13
53 Personal care workers	3986	12.9	44.5	12	3	51	26	20
81 Stationary plant and machine operators	360	1.2	42.8	18	23	47	20	18
91 Cleaners and helpers	1411	4.6	46.0	10	1	47	25	20
94 Food preparation assistants	374	1.2	46.8	10	2	49	26	20
All	30,873	100.0	43.5	63	25	53	22	14

^*At least one sickness absence day

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