The impact of an unemployment insurance reform on incidence rates of hospitalisation due to alcohol-related disorders: a quasi-experimental study of heterogeneous effects across ethnic background, educational level, employment status, and sex in Sweden

Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of the study population, 2001–2012

			Hospitalisations due to alcohol-related disorders
	Number of individuals	Observations (person-years)	Number of hospitalisations	Number of hospitalisations per 1,000 person-years
				2001–2006	2007–2012	2006	2007
Study population	5,009,832	42,370,094	189,874	4.4	4.5	4.3	4.5
Ethnic background
Swedish-born with Swedish-born parents	3,772,685	32,678,931	148,611	4.4	4.7	4.3	4.5
Swedish-born with foreign-born parent(s)	322,466	2,905,889	14,022	4.3	5.3	4.4	5.0
European foreign-born	470,518	3,572,271	23,468	7.1	6.0	6.9	6.6
Non-European foreign-born	444,163	3,213,003	3,773	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.2
Education
Low education	3,138,150	27,209,211	167,239	5.9	6.4	5.9	6.2
High education	1,871,682	15,160,883	22,635	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.4
Employment status
Employed	3,563,123	38,164,980	148,435	4.0	3.8	3.8	3.9
Unemployed	1,446,709	4,205,114	41,439	8.2	11.7	8.6	10.7
Unemployment benefit recipiency	1,015,190^a	2,668,090	17,839	5.9	7.9	6.2	7.8
Unemployment benefit non-recipiency	836,098^a	1,537,024	23,600	14.0	16.3	13.7	15.4
Sex
Men	2,547,349	21,658,406	145,427	6.7	6.7	6.5	6.7
Women	2,462,483	20,711,688	44,447	2.0	2.3	2.0	2.1
	Mean	Standard deviation
Age	45.0	8.9

^aBecause unemployment benefit (non-)recipiency varies over time, the total number of individuals in this variable exceeds the number of individuals in the study population

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