Mortality relative to unemployment and different time aspects of work for the first 5 years and the total follow up period (rate ratio (RR) (95% Cl) for men)
| Variables | 24 Year follow up3-150 | 5 Year follow up3-150 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age adjusted | Full model3-152 | Age adjusted | Full model3-152 | ||||||||||
| RR (95% CI) | n3-151 | RR (95% CI) | n3-151 | RR (95% CI) | n3-151 | RR (95% CI) | n3-151 | ||||||
| Ever unemployed | 1.55 (1.25 to 1.91) | 817 (102) | 1.34 (1.03 to 1.73) | 547 (70) | 2.21 (1.27 to 3.85) | 84 (16) | 1.52 (0.75 to 3.09) | 58 (10) | |||||
| Unemployed in 1973 | 1.96 (1.39 to 2.76) | 749 (34) | 1.43 (0.91 to 2.25) | 498 (21) | 4.83 (2.40 to 9.70) | 77 (9) | 3.29 (1.33 to 8.17) | 54 (6) | |||||
| Unemployed earlier, work in 1973 | 1.39 (1.08 to 1.78) | 783 (68) | 1.29 (0.95 to 1.74) | 526 (49) | 1.26 (0.57 to 2.78) | 75 (7) | 0.86 (0.31 to 2.43) | 52 (4) | |||||
| Part time work | 1.49 (0.92 to 2.41) | 698 (17) | 1.58 (0.91 to 2.77) | 477 (13) | 2.76 (0.86 to 8.92) | 58 (3) | 3.15 (0.94 to 10.59) | 41 (3) | |||||
| Overtime work ⩽5 h/week | 0.63 (0.49 to 0.81) | 692 (72) | 0.58 (0.43 to 0.80) | 472 (45) | 0.84 (0.37 to 1.88) | 61 (7) | 0.71 (0.25 to 2.06) | 42 (4) | |||||
| Overtime work >5 h/week | 1.08 (0.89 to 1.31) | 692 (135) | 1.15 (0.92 to 1.44) | 472 (103) | 1.87 (1.05 to 3.34) | 61 (17) | 2.00 (1.02 to 3.95) | 42 (13) | |||||
| Extra work ⩽5 h/week | 0.87 (0.66 to 1.16) | 683 (52) | 0.91 (0.65 to 1.27) | 472 (39) | 1.38 (0.58 to 3.24) | 58 (6) | 1.94 (0.79 to 4.72) | 41 (6) | |||||
| Extra work >5 h/week | 1.37 (1.10 to 1.71) | 683 (93) | 1.29 (0.99 to 1.69) | 472 (65) | 2.33 (1.22 to 4.44) | 58 (12) | 2.57 (1.20 to 5.52) | 41 (9) | |||||
↵3-150 Age adjusted model is based on 9681–10975 subjects; the full model is based on 6716–7512 subjects depending on the number of missing values.
↵3-151 Number of cases (number of exposed cases).
↵3-152 Adjusted for age, marital status, smoking, alcohol consumption, use of sleeping pills, instability, and long lasting or serious illness.