Psychosocial working conditions and the utilization of health care services

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Summary statistics

Variables	Mean	S.D
Numerical variables
GP	2.610	4.228
SP	0.745	2.558
Age	40.089	12.076
Social support	4.005	1.915
Health utility index(hui)	0.922	0.127
Chronic conditions	1.228	1.346
Categorical variables
High strain	0.328
Medium strain	0.244
low strain	0.426
Male	0.524
Female	0.476
Single	0.264
Married	0.633
Separated	0.103
Less than secondary education	0.099
Secondary education	0.139
Some post secondary	0.285
Post secondary	0.475
Low income	0.034
Middle low income	0.124
Middle high income	0.345
High income	0.497
Immigrants	0.150
Non immigrants	0.850
Never smoker	0.331
Current smoker	0.261
Former smoker	0.410
Never drinker	0.036
Current drinker	0.884
Former drinker	0.078
Regular doctor	0.84
No doctor	0.151
Active	0.250
Moderate	0.273
Inactive	0.477
Newfoundland	0.016
Prince Edwards	0.005
Nova Scotia	0.030
New Brunswick	0.024
Quebec	0.250
Ontario	0.370
Manitoba	0.036
Saskatchewan	0.032
Alberta	0.113
British Colombia	0.120
Mechanical	0.191
Trade	0.200
Professional	0.135
Managerial	0.174
Health	0.115
Farm	0.037
Service	0.144
N	29110

The statistics are weighted using the NPHS sampling weights. Numbers represent percentage and for some variables they do not add up to 100 per cent because of rounding.

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