Reliance on social security benefits by Swedish patients with ill-health attributed to dental fillings: a register-based cohort study

Table 2 Results of generalized estimating equations models for sick leave and disability pension

	Sick leave		Disability pension
	β	SE	β	SE
Cohort
General population (ref)
Replacement cohort	0.9673	0.0113	0.9530	0.0097
Year
1994 (ref)
1995	0.0037	0.0067	0.0695	0.0022
1996	−0.0182	0.0085	0.2017	0.0030
1997	−0.0730	0.0096	0.3313	0.0036
1998	0.0883	0.0098	0.4145	0.0040
1999	0.2767	0.0097	0.5012	0.0044
2000	0.5901	0.0093	0.5971	0.0047
2001	0.5909	0.0094	0.6981	0.0049
2002	0.7128	0.0093	0.8105	0.0051
2003	0.6948	0.0094	0.8825	0.0053
2004	0.4602	0.0099	1.0004	0.0055
2005	0.1832	0.0106	1.1193	0.0056
2006	0.1508	0.0107	1.1505	0.0058
*CohortYear**
1994 (ref)
1995	0.0415	0.0097	0.0915	0.0032
1996	0.0545	0.0124	0.1181	0.0044
1997	0.2641	0.0136	0.1052	0.0053
1998	0.4815	0.0136	0.1453	0.0059
1999	0.5463	0.0135	0.2163	0.0065
2000	0.3616	0.0133	0.2760	0.0069
2001	0.3664	0.0134	0.3490	0.0073
2002	0.3696	0.0133	0.3620	0.0076
2003	0.3306	0.0134	0.4090	0.0079
2004	0.2150	0.0142	0.4426	0.0081
2005	0.1030	0.0153	0.4239	0.0083
2006	−0.1757	0.0161	0.4046	0.0085
Sex
Female	0.2813	0.0066	0.2814	0.0069
Male (ref)
Educational level
Primary and lower secondary school (ref)
Upper secondary school	−0.0922	0.0064	−0.2034	0.0061
Post-secondary school	−0.3352	0.0070	−0.7667	0.0072
Data unavailable	−1.1064	0.0631	−0.0438	0.0342
Country of birth
Sweden (ref)
Other Nordic countries	0.1981	0.0087	0.0478	0.0095
Other European countries	0.1873	0.0102	0.3582	0.0098
Outside Europe	−0.0898	0.0129	0.2500	0.0124
Age	0.0004	0.0003	0.0305	0.0003
Constant	2.0472	0.0209	0.8424	0.0223

Regression coefficients with standard errors with sick leave and disability pension as dependent variables and cohort, year, cohort* year (interaction), educational level, country of birth, sex, and age also included in the model.

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