Table 1 Distribution of salaried women from early, middle, and late working life cohorts (WLCs) (N = 7404) across sickness absence trajectories (> 15 accumulated days on sickness absence per quarter) by employment conditions, occupational category, diagnosis groups, and the prior 10-year labour market participation patterns. Catalonia, 2012–2014
Early WLC (N = 2670) | Middle WLC (N = 2739) | Late WLC (N = 1995) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WOMEN | Low stable (87.4%) | High stable (6.7%) | Increasing (5.9%) | pa | Low stable (85.3%) | Decreasing (9.4%) | Increasing (5.3%) | pa | Low stable (85.4%) | Decreasing (5.0%) | Increasing (9.6%) | pa |
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||||
Type of contract | ||||||||||||
Permanent contract | 1852 (79.4) | 128 (71.5) | 125 (79.1) | .045 | 1935 (82.8) | 207 (80.5) | 108 (74.0) | .020 | 1484 (87.0) | 85 (85.9) | 168 (88.0) | .876 |
Temporary contract | 481 (20.6) | 51 (28.5) | 33 (20.9) | 401 (17.2) | 50 (19.5) | 38 (26.0) | 221 (13.0) | 14 (14.1) | 23 (12.0) | |||
Working time | ||||||||||||
Full-time | 1526 (65.4) | 114 (63.7) | 101 (63.9) | .984 | 1528 (65.4) | 160 (62.2) | 98 (67.1) | .787 | 1274 (74.7) | 72 (72.8) | 145 (76.0) | .771 |
Part-time: > 50% up to 99% | 602 (25.8) | 49 (27.4) | 43 (27.2) | 568 (24.3) | 66 (25.7) | 32 (21.9) | 251 (14.7) | 14 (14.1) | 23 (12.0) | |||
≤ 50% | 205 (8.8) | 16 (8.9) | 14 (8.9) | 240 (10.3) | 31 (12.1) | 16 (11.0) | 180 (10.6) | 13 (13.1) | 23 (12.0) | |||
Occupational category | ||||||||||||
Skilled non-manual | 562 (24.5) | 42 (23.8) | 31 (20.0) | .305 | 521 (22.7) | 58 (23.3) | 42 (28.7) | .556 | 291 (17.5) | 15 (15.5) | 28 (15.1) | .759 |
Skilled manual | 327 (14.2) | 34 (19.2) | 25 (16.1) | 351 (15.3) | 36 (14.5) | 23 (15.8) | 285 (17.2) | 18 (18.6) | 31 (16.8) | |||
Unskilled non-manual | 1248 (54.2) | 85 (48.0) | 90 (58.1) | 1172 (51.1) | 127 (51.0) | 62 (42.5) | 765 (46.0) | 41 (42.2) | 94 (50.8) | |||
Unskilled manual | 164 (7.1) | 16 (9.0) | 9 (5.8) | 250 (10.9) | 28 (11.2) | 19 (13.0) | 321 (19.3) | 23 (23.7) | 32 (17.3) | |||
Income in quartiles | ||||||||||||
High | 794 (34.1) | 50 (27.9) | 54 (34.1) | .229 | 733 (31.3) | 69 (27.0) | 40 (27.4) | .152 | 475 (27.9) | 26 (26.2) | 43 (22.5) | .625 |
Middle-high | 721 (30.9) | 51 (28.6) | 50 (31.7) | 705 (30.2) | 78 (30.4) | 55 (37.7) | 555 (32.6) | 28 (28.3) | 67 (35.1) | |||
Middle-low | 532 (22.8) | 57 (31.8) | 36 (22.8) | 569 (24.4) | 69 (27.0) | 39 (26.7) | 423 (24.8) | 28 (28.3) | 54 (28.3) | |||
Low | 284 (12.2) | 21 (11.7) | 18 (11.4) | 328 (14.1) | 40 (15.6) | 12 (8.2) | 251 (14.7) | 17 (17.2) | 27 (14.1) | |||
Diagnosis group (ICD-10) | ||||||||||||
Mental | 252 (11.8) | 32 (18.8) | 36 (24.5) | <.001 | 294 (14.9) | 52 (22.3) | 35 (28.0) | .001 | 235 (16.8) | 15 (20.0) | 36 (21.1) | .008 |
Digestive | 83 (3.9) | 5 (2.9) | 3 (2.0) | 131 (6.6) | 12 (5.2) | 3 (2.4) | 99 (7.0) | 3 (4.0) | 10 (5.8) | |||
Musculoskeletal | 925 (43.3) | 44 (25.7) | 47 (32.0) | 638 (32.4) | 68 (29.2) | 40 (32.0) | 459 (32.6) | 28 (37.3) | 65 (38.0) | |||
Pregnancy | 327 (15.3) | 39 (22.8) | 30 (20.4) | 195 (9.9) | 28 (12.0) | 13 (10.4) | – | – | – | |||
Injuries and poisoning | 173 (8.1) | 14 (8.2) | 8 (5.4) | 209 (10.6) | 27 (11.6) | 13 (10.4) | 211 (15.0) | 17 (22.7) | 32 (18.7) | |||
Others | 377 (17.6) | 37 (21.6) | 23 (15.7) | 505 (25.6) | 46 (19.7) | 21 (16.8) | 403 (28.6) | 12 (16.0) | 28 (16.4) | |||
Labour market participation patterns | ||||||||||||
Stable employment | 1789 (76.7) | 143 (79.9) | 121 (76.6) | .814 | 1706 (73.0) | 186 (72.4) | 114 (78.1) | .701 | 1214 (71.2) | 66 (66.7) | 130 (68.1) | .728 |
Increasing employment | 347 (14.9) | 25 (14.0) | 25 (15.8) | 310 (13.3) | 37 (14.4) | 15 (10.3) | 186 (10.9) | 12 (12.1) | 28 (14.7) | |||
Without long-term coverage (early and late)/Fluctuant employment (middle) | 197 (8.4) | 11 (6.2) | 12 (7.6) | 320 (13.7) | 34 (13.2) | 17 (11.6) | 127 (7.5) | 8 (8.1) | 15 (7.9) | |||
N/A (early and middle)/Decreasing employment (late) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 178 (10.4) | 13 (13.1) | 18 (9.4) | |||
Total | 2333 (100) | 179 (100) | 158 (100) | 2336 (100) | 257 (100) | 146 (100) | 1705 (100) | 99 (100) | 191 (100) | |||