Do trajectories of economic, work- and health-related disadvantages explain child welfare clients’ increased mortality risk? A prospective cohort study

Table 4 Family-related characteristics and experience of OHC (n = 13,468)

	Neither investigated nor placed	Investigated but not placed	Placed
	%	%	%
Household occupational class^a
Upper/upper middle class	14.8	7.5	3.2
Middle class	38.5	31.3	28.7
Working class	46.6	58.4	64.0
Unclassified	3.1	2.9	4.2
Social welfare receipt^b
Number of years of receipt (mean)	0.56	1.86	4.06
Parental mental health problems^c
No	86.8	87.5	71.6
Yes	3.2	12.5	28.4
Total	100	100	100

^aRefers to the occupation of the head of the household, derived from occupational registers (1953)
^bRefers to number of years that the family received social welfare, derived from the Social Register (1953–1972)
^cBased on records of fathers’/mothers’ mental health problems, derived from the Social Register (1953–1972)

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