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Table 1 Socioeconomic and commuting characteristics of 30–60 min car commuters in highest and lowest stress areas in 2000

From: Spatial heterogeneity in repeated measures of perceived stress among car commuters in Scania, Sweden

 

Highest stress area

Lowest stress area

County

Number

N = 68

N = 71

N = 616

Proportion with stress (%)

37** (z = 2.70)

14 (z = 1.54)

22

Female (%)

40 (z = 0.11)

39 (z = 0.17)

41

50 years or older (%)

37 (z = 0.04)

44 (z = 0.90)

38

More than 12 years of school (%)

50 (z = 0.00)

47 (z = 0.42)

50

White collar workers (%)

67 (z = 0.39)

71 (z = 1.16)

64

Employed full time (%)

90 (z = 0.37)

90 (z = 0.48)

88

High job satisfaction (%)

82 (z = 1.50)

68 (z = 0.93)

73

High neighbourhood connection (%)

39 (z = 0.09)

38 (z = 0.22)

40

Living alone (%)

9 (z = 0.00)

6 (z = 0.89)

10

Median income

7.3

6.4

6.7

Greater than median income (%)

53 (z = 0.37)

44 (z = 0.84)

Ref

Number fulfilling distance criteria

N = 61 (470)

N = 58 (473)

N = 531

Working in Malmö/Lund (%)

61** (z = 1.97)

28** (z = 2.87)

47

Living in Malmö/Lund (%)

7** (z = 3.89)

0** (z = 4.88)

30

Work or live in Malmö/Lund (%)

62 (z = 0.91)

28** (z = 4.18)

56

Commuting distance over median (%)

59 (z = 1.28)

55 (z = 0.66)

Ref

Mean commuting distance (km)

28

29

26

Median commuting distance (km)

27

27

24

  1. Italics text and ** highlight statistically significant values at the 95 % level (p < 0.05) and italics text and * highlight statistically significant values at the 90 % level (p < 0.10) in comparison to the rest of the county for 2000