Table 1 Distributions of socioeconomic, workplace and health-related factors among respondents to online and mailed surveys and telephone interviews as compared to the target population (under 40-year-old employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland)
Target population | Respondents | Statistical test for difference (chi-squared) | Response rate (95% CI) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | |||
Sex | ||||||
Women | 8801 | 77 | 4631 | 79 | 0.011 | 53 (52, 54) |
Men | 2658 | 23 | 1267 | 21 | 48 (46, 50) | |
Age | ||||||
18–24 years | 974 | 8 | 406 | 7 | 0.002 | 42 (39, 45) |
25–29 years | 3036 | 26 | 1559 | 26 | 51 (50, 53) | |
30–34 years | 3835 | 33 | 2003 | 34 | 52 (51, 54) | |
35–39 years | 3614 | 32 | 1930 | 33 | 53 (52, 55) | |
Occupational class | ||||||
Managers and professionals | 2778 | 24 | 1606 | 27 | < 0.0001 | 58 (56, 60) |
Semi-professionals | 3212 | 28 | 1871 | 32 | 58 (57, 60) | |
Routine non-manuals | 4307 | 38 | 1982 | 34 | 46 (45, 48) | |
Manual workers | 1162 | 10 | 439 | 7 | 38 (35, 41) | |
Income | ||||||
Highest quartile | 2866 | 25 | 1690 | 29 | < 0.0001 | 59 (57, 61) |
3rd | 2937 | 26 | 1668 | 28 | 57 (55, 59) | |
2nd | 2792 | 24 | 1297 | 22 | 46 (45, 48) | |
Lowest quartile | 2864 | 25 | 1243 | 21 | 43 (42, 45) | |
Employment sector | ||||||
Social and health care | 4906 | 43 | 2546 | 43 | 0.886 | 52 (50, 53) |
Education | 3964 | 35 | 2035 | 35 | 51 (50, 53) | |
Other | 2589 | 23 | 1317 | 22 | 51 (49, 53) | |
Contract type | ||||||
Permanent | 3074 | 27 | 1566 | 27 | 0.712 | 51 (49, 53) |
Temporary | 8385 | 73 | 4332 | 73 | 52 (51, 53) | |
Job type | ||||||
Full time | 10,158 | 89 | 5279 | 90 | 0.093 | 52 (51, 53) |
Part-time | 1301 | 11 | 619 | 10 | 48 (45, 50) | |
Work arrangement | ||||||
Day time | 7996 | 70 | 4245 | 72 | 0.011 | 53 (52, 54) |
Shift work | 3414 | 30 | 1629 | 28 | 48 (46, 49) | |
Undetermined | 49 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 49 (34, 64) | |
Years employed by the City of Helsinki* | ||||||
less than 1 year | 1542 | 13 | 756 | 13 | 0.327 | 49 (47, 52) |
1–5 years | 5220 | 46 | 2737 | 46 | 52 (51, 54) | |
more than 5 years | 4627 | 40 | 2378 | 40 | 51 (50, 53) | |
unknown | 70 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 39 (27, 51) | |
Sickness absence (6 months before the data collection) | ||||||
No sick leave spells | 5059 | 44 | 2577 | 44 | 0.008 | 51 (50, 52) |
From 1 to 3 days | 2742 | 24 | 1521 | 26 | 55 (54, 57) | |
From 4 to 14 days | 2682 | 23 | 1364 | 23 | 51 (49, 53) | |
15 days or more | 976 | 9 | 436 | 7 | 45 (42, 48) | |
Sickness absence (during the data collection = 18 Sep–31 Oct 2017) | ||||||
No sick leave spells | 7893 | 69 | 4046 | 69 | 0.014 | 51 (50, 52) |
From 1 to 3 days | 2216 | 19 | 1190 | 20 | 54 (52, 56) | |
From 4 to 14 days | 1081 | 9 | 565 | 10 | 52 (49, 55) | |
15 days or more | 269 | 2 | 97 | 2 | 36 (30, 42) | |
Total numbers | 11,459 | 100 | 5898 | 100 | 51 (51, 52) | |