Self-Employed Persons in Sweden - Mortality Differentials by Industrial Sector and Enterprise Legal Form: A Five-Year Follow-Up Study
2015 (English)In: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, ISSN 0271-3586, E-ISSN 1097-0274, Vol. 58, no 1, p. 21-32Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Objectives
This study investigated mortality differentials between self-employed persons in Sweden, considering industrial sector, enterprise characteristics and socio-demographic factors.
Methods
Data on 321,274 self-employed persons were obtained from population registers in Sweden. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare all-cause and cause-specific mortality rate ratios by industrial sector and enterprise legal form, adjusted for confounders.
Results
All-cause mortality was 10–32% higher in self-employed persons in Manufacturing and Mining, Trade and Communication, and Not Specified and Other sectors than in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing. Mortality from cardiovascular disease was 23% higher in Trade and Communication, and from neoplasms 17–51% higher in Manufacturing and Mining, Not Specified, and Other. Mortality from suicide was 45–60% lower in Personal and Cultural Services, and in Not Specified. Mortality was 8–16% higher in sole proprietorship than limited partnership.
Conclusions
Further research of working conditions is warranted, considering industry and enterprise legal form. Am. J. Ind. Med. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. Vol. 58, no 1, p. 21-32
Keywords [en]
cardiovascular disease, cohort study, cox proportional hazards model, entrepreneur, epidemiology, gender, health, limited partnership, mortality, neoplasm, sole proprietorship, suicide, working conditions
National Category
Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-23294DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22387ISI: 000346495300003PubMedID: 25256074Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84918558645OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-23294DiVA, id: diva2:758764
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Note
Publ online Sept 2014
2014-10-282014-10-282017-12-05Bibliographically approved