Descriptive statistics: SF-36 health attributes and employment type
Men | Women | |||||
Mean/proportion | 95% CI | N | Mean/proportion | 95% CI | N | |
Health attributes (mean, 0–100 scale) | ||||||
Physical functioning | 90.75 | 90.61 to 90.89 | 53 609 | 89.24 | 89.09 to 89.39 | 49 402 |
Role physical | 89.04 | 88.81 to 89.26 | 53 798 | 85.92 | 85.66 to 86.19 | 49 482 |
Bodily pain | 78.02 | 77.85 to 78.19 | 54 010 | 76.32 | 76.14 to 76.51 | 49 656 |
General health | 71.21 | 71.05 to 71.36 | 53 890 | 72.31 | 72.15 to 72.48 | 49 393 |
Vitality | 63.38 | 63.23 to 63.53 | 54 290 | 59.38 | 59.21 to 59.55 | 49 885 |
Social functioning | 88.18 | 88.02 to 88.33 | 54 644 | 85.54 | 85.36 to 85.71 | 50 173 |
Role emotional | 89.99 | 89.78 to 90.21 | 53 763 | 87.1 | 86.85 to 87.35 | 49 468 |
Mental health | 76.49 | 76.36 to 76.62 | 54 288 | 74.63 | 74.5 to 74.77 | 49 900 |
Employment type (proportion in %)* | ||||||
Permanent | 64.2 | 63.79 to 64.61 | 33 773 | 63.86 | 63.43 to 64.29 | 30 852 |
Casual | 8.73 | 8.49 to 8.97 | 4592 | 15.11 | 14.79 to 15.43 | 7299 |
Fixed term | 7.34 | 7.12 to 7.57 | 3863 | 9.37 | 9.12 to 9.64 | 4528 |
Self-employed | 19.36 | 19.03 to 19.7 | 10 187 | 11.1 | 10.82 to 11.38 | 5361 |
Other | 0.36 | 0.32 to 0.42 | 191 | 0.56 | 0.5 to 0.63 | 272 |
Total | 100 | 52 606 | 100 | 48 312 | ||
Employment type, regular/irregular (proportion in %)*† | ||||||
Permanent, regular | 62.77 | 62.35 to 63.18 | 33 015 | 62.52 | 62.09 to 62.96 | 30 205 |
Permanent, irregular | 1.44 | 1.34 to 1.54 | 757 | 1.33 | 1.23 to 1.44 | 644 |
Casual, regular | 8.09 | 7.86 to 8.32 | 4254 | 14 | 13.69 to 14.31 | 6763 |
Casual, irregular | 0.64 | 0.58 to 0.71 | 337 | 1.11 | 1.02 to 1.21 | 536 |
Fixed term, regular | 7.15 | 6.93 to 7.37 | 3761 | 9.15 | 8.89 to 9.41 | 4419 |
Fixed term, irregular | 0.19 | 0.16 to 0.23 | 101 | 0.23 | 0.19 to 0.27 | 109 |
Self-employed, regular | 18.92 | 18.59 to 19.26 | 9952 | 10.9 | 10.62 to 11.18 | 5265 |
Self-employed, irregular | 0.44 | 0.39 to 0.5 | 232 | 0.2 | 0.16 to 0.24 | 96 |
Other, regular | 0.35 | 0.3 to 0.4 | 182 | 0.54 | 0.48 to 0.61 | 261 |
Other, irregular | 0.02 | 0.01 to 0.03 | 9 | 0.02 | 0.01 to 0.04 | 11 |
Total | 100 | 52 600 | 100 | 48 309 |
*The underlying sample for the bottom two panels is the one in which all eight health attributes were non-missing.
†Due to missingness in the regular/irregular variable, further observations are lost—six for men and three for women.