Table 1 Categorisation of employment precariousness and prevalences. Employment precariousness status in 1999/2000, 2005, and 2010 of 1135 young participants from the Scania Public Health Cohort
Characteristics of preliminary categories | Final categories | 1999/2000 | 2005 | 2010 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | n | % | n | % | n | % |
Permanent work | Non-precarious employment (NP) | 575 | 50.7 | 739 | 65.1 | 859 | 75.7 |
 + no or low self-rated risk of future unemployment (regardless of previous unemployment) | |||||||
Contingent work | Non-precarious employment (NP) | 82 | 7.2 | 27 | 2.4 | 16 | 1.4 |
 + no self-rated risk of future unemployment + no previous unemployment | |||||||
All others with contingent work AND/OR moderate to high self-rated risk of future unemployment AND/OR previous unemployment | Precarious employment (PE) | 416 | 36.6 | 306 | 26.9 | 207 | 18.2 |
Unemployed | Precarious employment (PE) | 62 | 5.5 | 63 | 5.6 | 53 | 4.7 |
| Â | Â | 1135 | 100 | 1135 | 100 | 1135 | 100 |