Descriptive statistics for the participants
| Contractual employment security* | Perceived employment security | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High n=5681 | Intermediate n=2194 | Low n=682 | High n=6634 | Low n=2084 | |
| *High = permanent employees, intermediate = fixed term employees, low = subsidised employees. | |||||
| Perceived employment security high (%) | 88.9 | 60.1 | 16.3 | – | – |
| Contractual employment security* | |||||
| High | – | – | – | 78.6 | 31.1 |
| Intermediate | – | – | – | 19.7 | 41.7 |
| Low | – | – | – | 1.7 | 27.2 |
| Men (%) | 23.6 | 18.4 | 22.9 | 22.5 | 21.9 |
| Mean age (SD) | 45.4 (8.3) | 35.2 (9.7) | 38.2 (11.4) | 42.9 (9.6) | 40.1 (10.7) |
| Married (%) | 91.5 | 80.2 | 73.0 | 89.1 | 81.0 |
| Occupational status (%) | |||||
| Professionals | 38.0 | 42.0 | 8.4 | 41.3 | 23.0 |
| Associate professionals | 21.3 | 22.0 | 14.6 | 22.0 | 18.3 |
| Clerks | 9.3 | 9.7 | 26.6 | 9.4 | 14.8 |
| Manual workers | 31.4 | 26.3 | 55.3 | 27.3 | 44.0 |