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The sample presented in Table 3 contains employees starting a sick-leave
period in 2010. They were assigned a caseworker, which means that
their absence had been ongoing for a few weeks. The majority, 61 percent,
was women and the most common diagnoses were mental illness and
musculoskeletal disorder. Together they accounted for more than half of
the individuals on sick leave. Almost 50 percent worked in the private
sector. The large number of previous SI benefit days on average (336 days
since 2000) is owed to the sampling of individuals still on sick leave after
several weeks. In this group, individuals with relatively worse health are
expected to be overrepresented.
Table 3.
Individual sample characteristics
Male
0.39
Age
46.9
(11.8)
Foreign-born
0.14
University education
0.30
Diagnosis
Mental illness
0.24
Musculoskeletal disorder
0.28
Injuries, poisoning
0.15
Other
0.33
Sector (of work)
Municipality
0.26
County council
0.08
Private sector
0.46
Other
0.20
Absence since 2000
SI benefit days
336
(509)
Unemployment days
457
(813)
Number of observations
65,162
Note:
Standard deviation within parentheses.