Table 2 Work performed in awkward postures stratified by gender in different occupational groups (n = 14,265 due to missing data in 62 cases)
BLOSSFELD occupational group | Never in awkward postures (row %) | Rarely in awkward postures (row %) | Sometimes in awkward postures (row %) | Often in awkward postures (row %) | Total (row %) | No. of subjects | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Often performs overhead work | Often works in other awkward postures | ||||||
Men (n = 8786) | |||||||
Agricultural occupations | 9.1% | 20.3% | 35.3% | 13.4% | 21.9% | 100% | 187 |
Unskilled manual occupations | 28.1% | 23.9% | 21.2% | 11.7% | 15.1% | 100% | 675 |
Skilled manual occupations | 15.3% | 18.8% | 26.9% | 23.3% | 15.8% | 100% | 1210 |
Technicians | 45.1% | 24.5% | 18.9% | 6.2% | 5.3% | 100% | 628 |
Engineers | 71.5% | 18.5% | 7.8% | 1.3% | 0.9% | 100% | 769 |
Unskilled services | 36.7% | 26.9% | 21.2% | 8.2% | 7.0% | 100% | 867 |
Skilled services | 43.6% | 22.4% | 19.5% | 4.4% | 10.0% | 100% | 548 |
Semiprofessions | 60.2% | 16.9% | 13.0% | 0.5% | 9.4% | 100% | 575 |
Professions | 75.0% | 14.4% | 8.6% | 0.4% | 1.5% | 100% | 533 |
Unskilled commercial and administrational occupations | 61.3% | 14.4% | 13.5% | 2.3% | 8.6% | 100% | 222 |
Skilled commercial and administrational occupations | 80.7% | 11.7% | 5.9% | 0.3% | 1.4% | 100% | 1573 |
Managers | 85.0% | 9.2% | 3.7% | 0.7% | 1.4% | 100% | 999 |
All men | 54.4% | 17.8% | 14.6% | 6.3% | 6.9% | 100% | 8786 |
Women (n = 5479) | |||||||
Agricultural occupations | 16.1% | 16.1% | 29.0% | 11.3% | 27.4% | 100% | 62 |
Unskilled manual occupations | 50.0% | 16.2% | 19.5% | 7.1% | 7.1% | 100% | 154 |
Skilled manual occupations | 44.2% | 23.3% | 15.3% | 9.8% | 7.4% | 100% | 163 |
Technicians | 71.4% | 15.1% | 9.4% | 2.1% | 2.1% | 100% | 192 |
Engineers | 79.6% | 10.9% | 6.6% | 0.7% | 2.2% | 100% | 137 |
Unskilled services | 46.9% | 21.4% | 14.7% | 6.3% | 10.7% | 100% | 224 |
Skilled services | 48.9% | 19.8% | 17.7% | 3.7% | 9.9% | 100% | 464 |
Semiprofessions | 43.1% | 13.1% | 17.1% | 4.7% | 22.1% | 100% | 1419 |
Professions | 77.7% | 11.9% | 6.3% | 0.8% | 3.4% | 100% | 528 |
Unskilled commercial and administrational occupations | 60.7% | 15.4% | 13.2% | 4.8% | 5.9% | 100% | 272 |
Skilled commercial and administrational occupations | 87.7% | 6.3% | 3.8% | 0.6% | 1.7% | 100% | 1333 |
Managers | 92.5% | 3.8% | 2.4% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 100% | 531 |
All women | 65.4% | 11.9% | 10.8% | 3.0% | 9.0% | 100% | 5479 |
All men and women | 58.6% | 15.5% | 13.1% | 5.0% | 7.7% | 100% | 14,265 |