Table 1 Response rates and prevalence of musculoskeletal pain by country and year of survey
From: Correlations between pain in the back and neck/upper limb in the European Working Conditions Survey
Country | 2010 | 2015 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number interviewed | Response rate (%) | One-year prevalence of pain (%) | Number interviewed | Response rate | One-year prevalence of pain (%) | |||
Back | Neck-upper limb | Back | Neck-upper limb | |||||
Albania (AL) | 1000 | 58 | 39 | 43 | 1002 | 78 | 31 | 39 |
Austria (AT) | 1003 | 32 | 46 | 43 | 1028 | 47 | 47 | 44 |
Belgium (BE) | 4001 | 34 | 44 | 40 | 2587 | 36 | 46 | 45 |
Bulgaria (BG) | 1014 | 66 | 34 | 33 | 1064 | 64 | 38 | 41 |
Croatia (CR) | 1100 | 43 | 49 | 46 | 1012 | 50 | 50 | 51 |
Cyprus (CY) | 1000 | 66 | 46 | 45 | 1003 | 69 | 45 | 49 |
Czech Republic (CZ) | 1000 | 47 | 55 | 44 | 1002 | 63 | 40 | 31 |
Denmark (DK) | 1069 | 58 | 40 | 50 | 1002 | 26 | 45 | 58 |
Estonia (EE) | 1000 | 56 | 56 | 61 | 1015 | 59 | 48 | 57 |
Finland (FI) | 1028 | 47 | 50 | 69 | 1001 | 33 | 48 | 69 |
France (FR) | 3046 | 34 | 53 | 50 | 1527 | 37 | 60 | 57 |
FYROMa | 1100 | 68 | 45 | 49 | 1011 | 75 | 43 | 42 |
Germany (DE) | 2133 | 56 | 51 | 43 | 2093 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
Greece (GR) | 1037 | 40 | 43 | 39 | 1007 | 64 | 38 | 39 |
Hungary (HU) | 1006 | 47 | 47 | 50 | 1023 | 58 | 27 | 30 |
Ireland (IE) | 1003 | 50 | 23 | 25 | 1057 | 54 | 30 | 30 |
Italy (IT) | 1500 | 34 | 51 | 48 | 1402 | 61 | 41 | 35 |
Latvia (LV) | 1001 | 74 | 58 | 53 | 1004 | 62 | 51 | 46 |
Lithuania (LT) | 1004 | 54 | 52 | 39 | 1004 | 62 | 51 | 40 |
Luxembourg (LU) | 1000 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 1003 | 43 | 53 | 50 |
Malta (MT) | 1000 | 52 | 45 | 37 | 1004 | 46 | 41 | 43 |
Montenegro (ME) | 1041 | 59 | 49 | 46 | 1005 | 71 | 48 | 40 |
Netherlands (NL) | 1017 | 37 | 36 | 43 | 1028 | 37 | 37 | 41 |
Norway (NO) | 1085 | 32 | 41 | 53 | 1028 | 51 | 40 | 51 |
Poland (PL) | 1500 | 44 | 46 | 40 | 1203 | 56 | 47 | 42 |
Portugal (PT) | 1000 | 44 | 66 | 56 | 1037 | 55 | 42 | 39 |
Romania (RO) | 1017 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 1063 | 55 | 57 | 53 |
Slovakia (SK) | 1002 | 57 | 54 | 39 | 1000 | 65 | 50 | 36 |
Slovenia (SI) | 1404 | 42 | 53 | 49 | 1607 | 47 | 48 | 42 |
Spain (ES) | 1008 | 31 | 44 | 43 | 3364 | 32 | 46 | 45 |
Sweden (SE) | 1004 | 35 | 39 | 52 | 1002 | 11 | 41 | 54 |
Turkey (TR) | 2100 | 56 | 41 | 47 | 2000 | 36 | 46 | 49 |
United Kingdom (UK) | 1575 | 37 | 34 | 33 | 1623 | 42 | 35 | 37 |
All countries | 42,798 | 44 | 46 | 44 | 41,811 | 43 | 45 | 44 |