Table 1

Demographic and socioeconomic factors related to disability pension (DP) in a 1-year follow-up during 1993–2003 among women in Sweden aged 20–43 years and born between 1960 and 1979

	Person-years	Crude rate^*	Crude relative rate	Exposed cases	HR (95% CI)^†
Total	10 278 639	39		39 605
Ages during follow-up (years)
20–25	2 909 604	15	1.00	4345	1.00
26–30	2 964 268	26	1.75	7755	1.66 (1.60 to 1.72)
31–35	2 814 482	47	3.14	13 218	2.92 (2.82 to 3.02)
36+	1 590 285	90	6.02	14 287	4.54 (4.38 to 4.71)
Residential area
Sparsely populated areas	497 386	44	1.00	2166	1.00
Rural areas	507 730	54	1.25	2755	1.28 (1.21 to 1.35)
City areas	5 159 644	41	0.94	21 061	0.97 (0.93 to 1.01)
Metropolitan areas	4 111 669	33	0.76	13 621	0.78 (0.74 to 0.82)
Country of birth
Sweden	8 807 028	37	1.00	32 678	1.00
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland	268 139	53	1.43	1425	1.20 (1.13 to 1.26)
UK and Ireland	18 296	21	0.56	38	0.49 (0.36 to 0.68)
Poland	62 449	47	1.26	293	1.14 (1.02 to 1.28)
Eastern Europe including Romania, Hungary, former DDR and USSR	76 647	30	0.81	229	0.71 (0.62 to 0.80)
Bosnia–Hercegovina	79 481	35	0.94	276	0.83 (0.74 to 0.94)
Former Yugoslavia excluding Bosnia–Hercegovina	104 404	76	2.05	794	1.72 (1.60 to 1.84)
Greece	11 761	121	3.25	142	2.72 (2.31 to 3.21)
Western Europe including Germany	48 946	25	0.67	121	0.60 (0.50 to 0.71)
Iraq	67 727	42	1.13	283	0.98 (0.87 to 1.10)
Lebanon, Syria and Turkey	143 657	84	2.26	1204	2.24 (2.12 to 2.38)
South Central Asia including Iran	140 861	53	1.43	746	1.34 (1.25 to 1.44)
Ethiopia and Somalia	57 713	25	0.69	147	0.69 (0.59 to 0.81)
Africa excluding Ethiopia and Somalia	61 247	46	1.25	283	1.12 (1.00 to 1.26)
East Asia including Thailand and Vietnam	144 465	23	0.61	327	0.59 (0.53 to 0.65)
USA	25 521	15	0.41	39	0.37 (0.27 to 0.50)
Chile	49 665	48	1.29	237	1.27 (1.12 to 1.44)
South America excluding Chile	40 229	32	0.87	130	0.84 (0.71 to 1.00)
Other countries	70 403	30	0.82	213	0.75 (0.66 to 0.86)
Education
High, more than 12 years	3 208 713	17	1.00	5313	1.00
Medium, 10–12 years	5 674 755	40	2.40	22 577	2.72 (2.64 to 2.80)
Low, 9 years or less	1 369 063	83	5.04	11 418	5.97 (5.78 to 6.17)
Employment
Employed	8 724 849	23	1.00	19 645	1.00
Not employed	1 553 790	128	5.71	19 960	6.76 (6.63 to 6.90)
Employment sector
National public sector	672 544	30	1.00	2042	1.00
Local and county public sector	3 417 883	25	0.83	8649	0.83 (0.79 to 0.88)
Private sector	4 082 880	18	0.60	7435	0.66 (0.63 to 0.70)
Other sector	517 698	29	0.95	1498	1.06 (0.99 to 1.13)
Days of unemployment (days)
0	7 570 643	42	1.00	31 486	1.00
1–15	273 581	41	0.98	1114	1.25 (1.18 to 1.33)
16–30	238 987	31	0.74	738	1.03 (0.95 to 1.11)
31–60	425 404	28	0.68	1206	0.95 (0.90 to 1.01)
>60	1 770 024	29	0.69	5061	0.95 (0.92 to 0.98)
Income
High, above 3rd quartile	2 600 723	34	1.00	8721	1.00
Medium, 1st–3rd quartile	4 937 461	41	1.21	20 095	1.59 (1.55 to 1.63)
Low, below 1st quartile	2 554 492	41	1.23	10 559	2.32 (2.25 to 2.39)
Partner status
Cohabiting	4 750 441	36	1.00	17 304	1.00
Lone	5 528 198	40	1.11	22 301	1.82 (1.79 to 1.86)
Children
Without (no) children	4 886 709	32	1.00	15 464	1.00
With children	5 391 930	45	1.41	24 141	0.74 (0.72 to 0.76)
Number of children
No children	4 886 709	33	1.00	15 464	1.00
One child	1 769 317	38	1.16	6463	0.76 (0.74 to 0.79)
Two children	2 504 169	42	1.30	10 573	0.66 (0.65 to 0.68)
Three or more children	1 118 444	64	1.95	7105	0.88 (0.85 to 0.91)

↵* Number of new DPs per 10 000 person-years.
↵† Adjusted for age.