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Table 1 Weighted total sample numbers for sex, age group, language region, employment status, household size and urban/rural area in Switzerland by survey year 2018 and 2020

From: The use of health care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: repeated cross-sectional survey of the adult Swiss general population

Variables	2018 (N = 958)			2020 (N = 1022)
Variables	Estimate per 1000	Lower CI	Upper CI	Estimate per 1000	Lower CI	Upper CI	χ²	df	P-value
Sex
Women	500	448	553	490	453	528	0.15	1.00	0.701
Men	499	444	554	510	472	547
Age group
18–29 years	192	155	228	208	182	234	1.32	2.97	0.266
30–44 years	273	227	318	291	261	321
45–59 years	292	250	333	299	268	331
60–79 years	244	211	277	201	175	228
Language region
German	714	651	778	720	678	762	0.06	1.98	0.940
Italian	43	29	57	40	28	52
French	242	204	280	240	212	268
Household size
1 person	325	265	386	186	161	212	20.98	1.91	< 0.001
2 people	334	292	375	356	323	389
3 and more people	341	313	369	456	419	492
Area type
Rural	276	238	314	218	191	245	7.06	1.00	0.008
Urban	724	659	788	782	739	824
Employment
Employed	707	641	774	745	704	787	3.59	1.00	0.058
Not employed	292	258	326	250	221	279
Registered with a GP	947	878	1016	901	858	944	11.79	1	< 0.001

CI 95% confidence interval, df degrees of freedom. There was no missing data except for household size (0.20% in 2020) and employment status (0.49% in 2020)

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