The gender gap in sickness absence from work and the influence of parental absence on offspring absence 15 years later: register-based cohort of Norwegians born in 1974–1976

Table 1 Distribution of the population characteristics, including exposure prevalence and risk of outcome

Characteristic	n	%	Exposure prevalence^a	Outcome risk (%)^b
Total	78 878	100	0.222	21.1
Sex
Women	38 543	48.9	0.223	30.4
Men	40 335	51.1	0.222	12.3
Parental sickness absence
Neither	61 331	77.8	0	20.3
Mother only	12 623	16.0	1	23.1
Father only	3746	4.7	1	24.9
Both	1178	1.5	1	31.7
Mother’s education level at index person age 16 years
Tertiary, higher	971	1.2	0.120	16.4
Tertiary, lower	14 782	18.7	0.183	18.4
Upper secondary, complete	7755	9.8	0.174	19.3
Upper secondary, basic	38 205	48.4	0.223	21.7
Lower secondary or less	16 550	21.0	0.284	23.6
Missing	615	0.8	0.246	19.2
Father’s education level at index person age 16 years
Tertiary, higher	6110	7.8	0.147	17.1
Tertiary, lower	13 775	17.5	0.172	18.7
Upper secondary, complete	17 276	21.9	0.213	20.7
Upper secondary, basic	25 836	32.7	0.239	21.8
Lower secondary or less	15 316	19.4	0.279	24.3
Missing	565	0.7	0.264	21.1
Father’s income quartile at index age 18 years
1 (low)	19 693	25.0	0.273	22.6
2	19 201	24.3	0.254	21.8
3	20 313	25.8	0.201	21.2
4 (high)	19 671	24.9	0.163	19.0

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