Detailed job description and exposure status in 1970 for the 831 controls in the Danish dry cleaner study
| Code | Detailed job description | Size of workplace | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <10 | ⩾10 | Unknown | |||
| *Owners and managers of dry cleaning shops were all coded as “dry cleaners” due to the small average size of the shops, and the clear referral to them as active workers in the dry cleaning association journals. | |||||
| †(Code 010, 030, 040) and ((code 021–026, 033, 041, 048) and (size<10)). | |||||
| ‡(Code 027 + ((code 021–026, 033, 041, 048) and (size>10))). The few persons with detailed occupational codes 021–026, 033, 041, 048 and size unknown, were individually allocated to the dry cleaner group or other workers group based on available information, e.g. number of machines in the shop. | |||||
| §(Code 050–100). A mangle shop was a shop where cold ironing of linen was performed after washing. | |||||
| 010 | Dry cleaner, incl. owner, manager of dry cleaning shop* | – | – | 55 | 89 |
| Other workers in dry cleaning | |||||
| 021 | Presser, ironer | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 022 | Spot cleaner | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 023 | Shop assistant, packing, sorting | 14 | 9 | 3 | 26 |
| 024 | Accounting, office | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 025 | Driver | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 026 | Tailor/sewing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 027 | Shop for collection/return of clothes for dry cleaning | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 030 | Dry cleaner also doing laundry work, including owner, manager of combined dry cleaning/laundry shop* | – | – | 9 | 15 |
| Other workers in dry cleaning/laundry | |||||
| 033 | Shop assistant, packing, sorting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 040 | Dry cleaner also doing dyeing work, including owner, manager of combined dry cleaning/dye shop* | – | – | 1 | 4 |
| Other workers in dry cleaning/dye shop | |||||
| 041 | Presser, ironer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 048 | Dyer | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 050 | Dye shop, all jobs | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 060 | Laundry hospital, all jobs | 0 | 0 | 59 | 59 |
| 070 | Laundry not hospital, all jobs | 0 | 0 | 508 | 508 |
| 080 | Textile industry, renting of clothes, ironer, etc | 0 | 0 | 55 | 55 |
| 090 | Mangle shop | 0 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| 100 | Census form incorrectly coded | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 55 | 41 | 735 | 831 | |
| Dry cleaner and other workers in dry cleaning shops with less than 10 employees† | – | – | – | 143 | |
| Other workers in dry cleaning shops‡ | – | – | – | 33 | |
| Unexposed workers being laundry workers, mangle shops owners, etc§ | – | – | – | 655 | |