Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the study population (29–64 years) by gender
MEN (n = 810) | WOMEN (n = 1070) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics | Russian (n = 124) | Somali (n = 88) | Kurdish (n = 192) | Finnish (n = 406) | Russian (n = 238) | Somali (n = 151) | Kurdish (n = 174) | Finnish (n = 507) | ||||||||
%a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | %a | (n)b | |
Age, years (mean) | 43.7 | 40.4 | 40.6 | 45.9 | 45.8 | 41.4 | 40.3 | 45.7 | ||||||||
Married or cohabiting | 77.7 | (96) | 81.8 | (68) | 83.6 | (154) | 69.4 | (296) | 60.0 | (149) | 70.6 | (95) | 75.8 | (136) | 69.3 | (346) |
High school graduatec | 79.9 | (92) | 54.0 | (38) | 44.9 | (82) | 55.0 | (228) | 85.0 | (197) | 12.8 | (18) | 38.8 | (68) | 68.4 | (342) |
Employment status | ||||||||||||||||
Employed | 65.0 | (75) | 37.3 | (31) | 42.6 | (80) | 77.0 | (308) | 51.9 | (122) | 15.2 | (21) | 29.9 | (56) | 77.6 | (391) |
Unemployed | 30.0 | (37) | 38.8 | (30) | 37.5 | (64) | 5.6 | (25) | 29.0 | (66) | 31.9 | (38) | 31.7 | (50) | 3.0 | (18) |
Economically inactived | 5.0 | (9) | 23.8 | (21) | 19.9 | (38) | 17.4 | (64) | 19.1 | (48) | 52.9 | (74) | 38.4 | (67) | 19.3 | (94) |
Difficult economic situatione | 22.9 | (24) | 59.6 | (34) | 47.4 | (81) | 8.8 | (33) | 31.1 | (63) | 42.3 | (37) | 41.9 | (65) | 12.0 | (58) |
Obese (BMI ≥ 30)f | 16.4 | (19) | 5.2 | (8) | 20.8 | (36) | 20.4 | (70) | 20.9 | (51) | 49.0 | (69) | 31.0 | (48) | 20.9 | (113) |
At least one of the selected chronic conditionsg | 24.8 | (37) | 13.1 | (10) | 40.3 | (66) | 25.4 | (129) | 28.7 | (74) | 43.3 | (46) | 49.5 | (77) | 30.4 | (175) |
Permanent injuries | 16.6 | (20) | 7.8 | (29) | 27.6 | (5) | 9.3 | (7) | 12.9 | (46) | 6.0 | (22) | 14.5 | (35) | 4.5 | (25) |
Time lived in Finland, years | ||||||||||||||||
< 6 | 26.9 | (31) | 12.6 | (16) | 12.1 | (24) | NA | 19.4 | (39) | 13.3 | (27) | 12.7 | (24) | NA | ||
6–14 | 45.4 | (53) | 31.9 | (27) | 62.2 | (112) | 42.0 | (103) | 36.2 | (49) | 57.7 | (99) | ||||
> 14 | 27.7 | (37) | 55.5 | (39) | 25.7 | (46) | 38.6 | (94) | 50.5 | (62) | 29.6 | (51) | ||||
Poor language proficiencyh | 19.7 | (27) | 8.5 | (13) | 12.4 | (25) | NA | 7.8 | (25) | 38.3 | (55) | 20.9 | (34) | NA | ||