Table 2 Descriptive statistics of job-related variables

Job

1 157

412

145 331

131 910

Managers and Senior Officials

147 (12.7%)

75 (18.2%)

18 482 (12.7%)

29 954 (22.7%)

Professional Occupations

234 (20.2%)

95 (23.1%)

32 052 (22.1%)

33 462 (25.4%)

Associate Professional,

241 (20.8%)

69 (16.7%)

28 529 (19.6%)

19 592 (14.9%)

Technical Occupations

Administrative and

252 (21.8%)

31 (7.5%)

35 122 (24.2%)

8 197 (6.2%)

Secretarial Occupations

Skilled Trades Occupations

11 (0.6%)

70 (17.0%)

2 451 (1.7%)

17 908 (13.6%)

Personal Service Occupations

143 (12.4%)

10 (2.4%)

13 675 (9.4%)

2 726 (2.1%)

Sales and Customer Service Occupations

66 (5.7%)

4 (1.0%)

7 098 (4.9%)

2 249 (1.7%)

Process, Plant and Machine Operatives

13 (0.7%)

27 (6.6%)

1 558 (0.7%)

10 702 (8.1%)

Elementary Occupations

50 (4.3%)

31 (7.5%)

6 364 (4.4%)

71 20 (5.4%)

Heavy manual or physical work

1 048

362

127 964

118 577

Never/rarely

719 (68.6%)

207 (57.2%)

90 197 (70.5%)

71 449 (60.3%)

Sometimes

225 (21.5%)

75 (20.7%)

25 591 (20.0%)

26 867 (22.7%)

Usually

55 (5.2%)

39 (10.8%)

6 226 (4.9%)

10 258 (8.7%)

Always

49 (4.7%)

41 (11.3%)

5 950 (4.6%)

10 003 (8.4%)

Work involves mainly

1 048

362

127 982

118 510

walking/standing

Never/rarely

362 (34.5%)

115 (31.8%)

48 128 (37.6%)

39 967 (33.7%)

Sometimes

294 (28.1%)

103 (28.5%)

37 579 (29.4%)

37 906 (32.0%)

Usually

173 (16.5%)

56 (15.5%)

18 235 (14.2%)

17 965 (15.2%)

Always

219 (20.9%)

88 (24.3%)

24 040 (18.8%)

22 672 (19.1%)

Job involves shift work

1 045

360

127 815

118 403

Never/rarely

865 (82.8%)

288 (80.0%)

109 261 (85.5%)

95 321 (80.5%)

Sometimes

70 (6.7%)

31 (8.6%)

7 940 (6.2%)

10 031 (8.5%)

Usually

20 (1.9%)

7 (1.9%)

2 459 (1.9%)

2 697 (2.3%)

Always

90 (8.6%)

34 (9.4%)

8 155 (6.4%)

10 354 (8.7%)

Job involves night shift work

182

73

18 737

23 212

Never/rarely

101 (55.5%)

30 (41.1%)

10 711 (57.2%)

9 805 (42.2%)

Sometimes

41 (22.5%)

25 (34.2%)

4 569 (24.4%)

7 497 (32.3%)

Usually

12 (6.6%)

7 (9.6%)

1 204 (6.4%)

2 188 (9.4%)

Always

28 (15.4%)

11 (15.1%)

2 253 (12.0%)

3 722 (16.0%)

Job satisfaction

425

142

54 613

47 353

Extremely happy

37 (8.7%)

13 (9.2%)

4 305 (7.9%)

4 151 (8.8%)

Very happy

155 (36.5%)

51 (35.9%)

20 053 (36.7%)

16 993 (35.9%)

Moderately happy

200 (47.1%)

57 (40.1%)

25 785 (47.2%)

20 968 (44.3%)

Moderately unhappy

24 (5.6%)

13 (9.2%)

3 354 (6.1%)

3 818 (8.1%)

Very unhappy

6 (1.4%)

4 (2.8%)

757 (1.4%)

1 017 (2.1%)

Extremely unhappy

3 (0.2%)

4 (2.8%)

359 (0.7%)

406 (0.9%)