Percentage difference in physical and psychosocial work conditions at time of interview for workers employed outside the sawmill sector and in a sawmill by occupational category at time of interview
| Control | Social support | Psychological demand | Physical demand | Noise | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job type | *SM | Non-SM | SM | Non-SM | SM | Non-SM | SM | Non-SM | SM | Non-SM |
| *SM=sawmill; non-SM=non-sawmill sector. †Numbers in parentheses indicate percentage difference in scores between non-sawmill and sawmill sectors; that is, (non-sawmill-sawmill sector scores). | ||||||||||
| Managers | 27.5 | †26.9 (−2.2) | 6.0 | 6.7 (10.5) | 12.8 | 13.7 (6.6) | 2.4 | 2.1 (−14.2) | 2.6 | 2.1 (−23.8) |
| Trades | 24.2 | 24.8 (2.4) | 5.8 | 5.8 (0) | 13.2 | 12.6 (−4.8) | 3.0 | 2.9 (−3.4) | 3.4 | 2.9 (−17.2) |
| Semiskilled | 22.2 | 23.3 (4.7) | 5.4 | 5.9 (8.5) | 13.2 | 12.9 (−3.9) | 2.7 | 2.7 (0) | 3.2 | 2.8 (−14.3) |
| Unskilled | 20.7 | 22.4 (7.6) | 5.2 | 6.0 (13.3) | 13.3 | 12.4 (−7.3) | 3.0 | 2.7 (−11.1) | 3.3 | 2.4 (−37.5) |