From: The impact of diabetes on labour market participation: a systematic review of results and methods
Category | Characteristics | Number of studies |
---|---|---|
Designa | Cross sectional | 20 |
Longitudinal | 11 | |
Context | ||
 Areaa | North America | 15 |
Europe | 7 | |
Australia | 6 | |
Asia | 2 | |
Central America | 1 | |
 Period of data collection | Before 2000 | 14 |
After 2000 | 16 | |
 Dataset | Survey only | 26 |
Survey + Register | 4 | |
Participants | ||
 Number of participants | < 10,000 | 11 |
≥10,000 to < 50,000 | 13 | |
≥50,000 to < 100,000 | 5 | |
> 100,000 | 1 | |
 Population | General population | 28 |
Employees in the energy sector | 1 | |
Employees in the public sector | 1 | |
 Sex | Both | 27 |
Only Women | 3 | |
Only Men | 0 | |
 Ageb | 18 or older | 16 |
45 or older | 7 | |
50 or older | 7 | |
Definitions | ||
 Diabetes definition | self-report | 25 |
register data | 3 | |
laboratory analysis | 2 | |
 Diabetes typea | T1DM onlyc | 1 |
T2DM onlyc | 1 | |
Both distinguished | 4 | |
Both undistinguished | 24 | |
Haemoglobin A1c > 6.5% | 1 | |
 Outcomea | Employment | 16 |
Unemployment | 8 | |
Early retirement | 8 | |
Disability pension | 5 |