Table 2 Descriptive statistics for job quality change groups from 2011 to 2014, health levels in 2014 and non-employment in 2018

Cohort

1959

1,353

45.8

50.9

(10.5)

48.9

(9.2)

1,268

(93.7)

85

(6.3)

1965

1,599

54.2

50.1

(9.9)

50.5

(8.7)

1,541

(96.4)

58

(3.6)

Sex

Male

1,328

44.9

51.6

(9.6)

50.3

(8.7)

1,272

(95.8)

56

(4.2)

Female

1,624

55.1

49.5

(10.5)

49.4

(9.2)

1,537

(94.6)

87

(5.4)

Job quality groups:

Initially manual

PQ-PQ (− −)

228

7.7

46.1

(11.2)

45.8

(9.3)

200

(87.7)

28

(12.3)

2.46

[1.39; 4.34]

PQ-SnM (− −)

74

2.5

47.1

(10.6)

48.2

(9.0)

71

(95.9)

3

(4.1)

0.70

[0.20; 2.37]

PQ-RM (− +)

164

5.6

50.7

(9.2)

47.5

(8.7)

156

(95.1)

8

(4.9)

0.86

[0.38; 1.95]

PQ-SR (− +)

45

1.5

52.5

(9.9)

48.4

(7.2)

42

(93.3)

3

(6.7)

1.28

[0.37; 4.45]

RM-PQ (+ −)

130

4.4

48.1

(9.8)

47.4

(9.4)

116

(89.2)

14

(10.8)

2.04

[1.03; 4.06]

RM-SnM (+ −)

60

2.0

48.3

(11.5)

50.5

(9.4)

^b

^b

^b

^b

0.56

[0.13; 2.43]

RM-SR (+ +)

175

5.9

52.4

(9.5)

51.3

(8.4)

171

(97.7)

4

(2.3)

0.39

[0.14; 1.15]

RM-RM (+ +)

447

15.1

52.5

(8.7)

48.1

(8.7)

422

(94.4)

25

(5.6)

(ref)

Initially non-manual

SnM-PQ (− −)

63

2.1

43.9

(10.7)

46.5

(10.2)

59

(93.7)

4

(6.3)

1.77

[0.59; 5.26]

SnM-SnM (− −)

198

6.6

47.2

(10.4)

50.7

(9.0)

194

(98.0)

4

(2.0)

0.56

[0.19; 1.62]

SnM-RM (− +)

56

1.9

50.6

(11.8)

48.9

(8.6)

51

(91.1)

5

(8.9)

2.54

[0.94; 6.91]

SnM-SR (− +)

166

5.6

51.0

(9.1)

52.1

(8.2)

162

(97.6)

4

(2.4)

0.66

[0.23; 1.90]

SR-PQ (+ −)

40

1.4

46.7

(11.2)

47.8

(10.3)

^b

^b

^b

^b

1.24

[0.28; 5.44]

SR-SnM (+ −)

194

6.6

48.2

(11.0)

51.8

(8.5)

188

(96.9)

6

(3.1)

0.84

[0.34; 2.06]

SR-RM (+ +)

139

4.7

51.4

(10.1)

49.5

(9.3)

136

(97.8)

3

(2.2)

0.62

[0.19; 2.08]

SR-SR (+ +)

773

26.7

52.7

(9.5)

52.0

(8.4)

745

(96.4)

28

(3.6)

(ref)