Year | Factor | Category | Sickness absence | Disability pension | ||||||
PwMS‡ | Ref‡ | PwMS‡ | Ref‡ | |||||||
Part- time | Full- time | Part- time | Full- time | Part- time | Full-time | Part- time | Full- time | |||
T0 | Education | University/college | 11.0 | 43.0 | 2.6 | 10.0 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
High school | 9.1 | 49.5 | 2.1 | 15.6 | 5.7 | 10.0 | 2.5 | 6.4 | ||
Elementary school | 11.0 | 45.6 | 1.3 | 16.3 | 8.4 | 22.8 | 3.5 | 16.9 | ||
T+5 | University/college | 7.2 | 17.7 | 1.6 | 8.4 | 21.6 | 15.4 | 2.1 | 2.8 | |
High school | 5.3 | 17.1 | 0.8 | 11.9 | 20.9 | 27.3 | 3.0 | 8.1 | ||
Elementary school | 6.6 | 13.2 | 0.8 | 10.0 | 19.7 | 48.3 | 4.9 | 19.6 | ||
T0 | Occupation | Managers | 16.3 | 31.4 | 0.8 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
Office work | 13.3 | 43.6 | 2.9 | 11.0 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 0.7 | ||
Manual labour | 8.5 | 55.7 | 2.1 | 17.2 | 5.1 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 1.4 | ||
Unknown | 10.0 | 43.9 | 2.3 | 17.1 | 12.3 | 13.1 | 2.3 | 7.7 | ||
No work§ | 2.1 | 37.2 | 0.3 | 15.0 | 3.2 | 49.3 | 2.4 | 39.8 | ||
T+5 | Managers | 4.7 | 8.2 | 0.4 | 4.7 | 24.7 | 15.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | |
Office work | 8.0 | 18.7 | 1.5 | 8.7 | 25.5 | 12.7 | 2.5 | 1.5 | ||
Manual labour | 5.4 | 19.1 | 0.8 | 13.6 | 20.2 | 23.7 | 3.5 | 2.9 | ||
Unknown | 7.9 | 13.4 | 1.7 | 11.3 | 24.2 | 33.6 | 2.9 | 10.4 | ||
No work§ | 1.9 | 8.5 | 0.8 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 69.7 | 3.2 | 45.5 | ||
T0 | All | – | 10.0 | 46.7 | 2.1 | 13.7 | 5.2 | 9.1 | 2.3 | 6.3 |
T+5 | – | 6.2 | 16.9 | 1.1 | 10.4 | 21.0 | 25.1 | 2.9 | 7.9 |
*Row percent of all individuals (including those without SA or DP in each subgroup).
†Individuals with a spell of SA or DP with the highest grade (25%, 50%, 75% or 100%) at T0 and T+5 (ie, if an individual had both part-time and full-time SA in a single year, the individual was categorised as full-time SA; the same procedure was used for individuals on DP).
‡Numbers at year T0: PwMS (n=2553) and references (n=7584).
§Individuals with unemployment benefits can be granted SA if the disease/injury is severe enough to prevent them from seeking employment. DP can be granted until the age of 65. In most cases, SA refers to compensation for an SA spell >14 days (the first 14 are covered by the employer).
DP, disability pension; PwMS, people with multiple sclerosis; SA, sickness absence.