Income and education as predictors of return to working life among younger stroke patients

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Descriptive statistics showing the proportion that returned to work after the stroke, the proportion that did not return to work, and the proportion that died.

	Returned to work		No return		P for dif return to work/no return¹	Died without returning to work		Total
Independent variable	No of obs	%	No of obs	%		No of obs	%	No of obs
Sex
Men	3241	71.3	1045	23.0	< 0.001	262	5.8	4548
Women	1626	64.2	770	30.4		137	5.5	2533
Age
40-44	463	76.5	117	19.3	< 0.001	25	4.1	605
45-49	956	76.2	257	20.5	< 0.001	41	3.3	1254
50-54	1675	72.1	523	22.5	< 0.001	126	5.4	2324
55-59	1773	61.2	918	31.7	< 0.001	207	7.1	2898
Education
Compulsory	1537	63.5	736	30.4	< 0.001	147	6.1	2420
Upper secondary	2060	67.4	820	26.8	0.036	178	5.8	3058
University	1270	79.2	259	16.2	< 0.001	74	4.6	1603
Income
1^st quartile (lowest)	916	51.8	704	39.8	< 0.001	148	8.4	1768
2^nd quartile	1161	65.6	500	28.2	0.002	109	6.2	1770
3^rd quartile	1285	72.6	401	22.7	< 0.001	84	4.8	1770
4^th quartile (highest)	1505	84.9	210	11.8	< 0.001	58	3.3	1773
Days of in-patient care
1-7	2388	80.3	465	15.6	< 0.001	129	4.0	2973
8-14	1216	73.5	355	21.5	< 0.001	83	5.0	1654
15-30	734	66.7	310	28.2	0.045	57	5.2	1101
> 30	529	39.1	685	50.6	< 0.001	139	10.3	1353
Stroke subtype
Cerebral infarction	3293	69.3	1193	25.1	0.135	268	5.6	4754
Subarachnoid haemorrhage	776	73.8	241	22.9	0.007	34	3.2	1051
Intracerebral haemorrhage	511	57.3	305	34.2	< 0.001	76	8.5	892
Stroke, not specified (I64)	287	74.7	76	19.8	0.006	21	5.5	384
Total	4867	68.7	1815	25.6		399	5.6	7081

¹ P-values are based on χ²-test. Each p-value is based on the comparison between one category and all other categories combined. For instance, the p-value next to the 2^nd income quartile is for the comparison between the 2^nd quartile and quartiles 1, 3, and 4 combined.

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