Employment status and perceived health condition: longitudinal data from Italy

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Sample descriptive statistics of self reported health status (%) by employment status, year, gender, age, area of residence, family income, family wealth, and regional unemployment rate

	Very poor	Poor	Fair	Good	Excellent	Total
Total	0.25	1.63	7.86	54.26	36.00	100.00
Employment status
Permanent	0.13	0.91	5.84	55.27	37.85	48.25
Temporary	0.07	1.20	7.51	54.23	36.99	7.72
First-job seekers	0.05	0.76	3.08	50.22	45.89	4.90
Unemployed	0.47	3.96	13.08	55.60	26.89	3.95
Out of labor force	0.46	2.57	10.79	53.29	32.89	35.18
Year
2006	0.19	1.66	8.04	54.43	35.68	33.23
2008	0.36	1.72	7.79	54.11	36.03	33.35
2010	0.21	1.50	7.75	54.25	36.30	32.43
Gender
Female	0.23	1.68	8.36	55.53	34.18	50.76
Male	0.27	1.57	7.34	52.95	37.88	49.24
Age
15–40	0.10	0.54	2.81	46.29	50.26	46.11
41–64	0.38	2.56	12.18	61.09	23.80	53.89
Area of residence
North	0.21	1.30	6.79	48.33	43.36	43.13
Center	0.28	1.59	8.78	59.63	29.71	19.64
South	0.28	2.03	8.60	58.30	30.80	37.23
Income
≤22,090	0.40	3.12	11.16	56.57	28.74	24.99
(22,090;33,490]	0.37	1.59	8.22	54.76	35.06	25.01
(33,490;47,850]	0.16	1.15	6.96	53.50	38.23	24.99
>47,850	0.07	0.65	5.09	52.22	41.97	25.01
Wealth
≤40,500	0.30	2.35	9.03	54.88	33.44	24.99
(40,500;186,900]	0.35	2.06	8.42	55.53	33.63	25.01
(186,900;335,000]	0.26	1.14	7.21	53.12	38.27	25.00
>335,000	0.10	0.95	6.77	53.52	38.67	25.00
Unemployment rate
≤4.3	0.23	1.43	7.51	48.16	42.67	25.12
(4.3;5.7]	0.24	1.50	6.87	54.39	37.00	25.30
(5.7;12.6]	0.23	1.50	9.03	55.95	33.30	24.53
>12.6	0.31	2.08	8.05	58.60	30.96	25.05

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