Table 4 Unadjusted and age-adjusted prevalence of the metabolic syndrome by category of the Korean Standard Classification of Occupations stratified by gender
Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (95% confidence intervals) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Occupational groups | Number * | Unadjusted | Age-adjusted |
Overall male workers | 1,859/13,152,179 | 24.1 (21.7–26.5) | 23.2 (21.0–25.5) |
Non-manual workers | 676/4,905,005 | 26.3 (22.3–30.2) † | 26.4 (22.3–30.5) † |
Managers | 61/362,106 | 31.7 (18.1–45.3) † | 26.5 (14.2–38.8) † |
Professional and related workers | 335/2,531,917 | 25.0 (19.3–30.8) † | 27.3 (20.9–33.6) † |
Clerks | 280/2,010,981 | 26.9 (21.0–32.8) † | 24.6 (18.1–31.1) |
Service/sales workers | 304/2,302,276 | 19.9 (14.6–25.2) | 21.5 (15.9–27.1) |
Service workers | 104/910,156 | 15.7 (8.1–23.3) | 17.5 (9.0–26.0) |
Sales workers | 200/1,392,120 | 22.7 (15.3–30.0) | 23.0 (16.2–29.8) |
Manual workers | 879/5,944,897 | 23.9 (20.6–27.1) | 20.1 (17.3–23.0) |
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 272/1,589,656 | 24.3 (18.2–30.4) | 15.6 (10.9–20.2) |
Craft and related trades workers | 206/1,733,288 | 15.7 (10.6–20.7) | 16.4 (11.0–21.9) |
Equipment, machine operating and assembling workers | 240/1,597,780 | 35.4 (28.4–42.4) † | 26.5 (21.1–32.0) † |
Elementary workers | 161/1,024,171 | 19.2 (11.3–27.2) | 16.9 (9.4–24.4) |
Overall female workers | 1,544/8,824,612 | 17.3 (14.8–19.8) | 19.5 (17.3–21.6) |
Non-manual workers | 545/3,325,220 | 7.7 (4.4–10.9) | 20.8 (11.3–30.2) † |
Managers | 8/22,859 | 12.8 (−9.1–34.8) | 10.6 (−6.7–27.9) |
Professional and related workers | 334/1,998,628 | 7.3 (3.5–11.2) | 27.9 (21.5–34.3) † |
Clerks | 203/1,303,732 | 8.1 (2.6–13.5) | 9.8 (2.7–16.9) |
Service/sales workers | 428/2,502,853 | 16.9 (12.8–20.9) | 18.4 (13–22.9) |
Service workers | 215/1,340,314 | 16.9 (11.4–22.3) | 20.5 (14.5–26.6) † |
Sales workers | 213/1,162,539 | 16.9 (11.2–22.5) | 17.6 (11.9–23.2) |
Manual workers | 581/2,996,538 | 28.4 (23.9–32.9) † | 20.8 (16.9–24.7) † |
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 225/1,011,474 | 39.2 (31.8–46.6) † | 22.0 (15.2–28.9) † |
Craft and related trades workers | 42/258,235 | 19.1 (4.4–33.8) | 12.0 (2.8–21.2) |
Equipment, machine operating and assembling workers | 35/158,745 | 7.8 (−2.5–18.1) | 6.2 (−1.7–14.2) |
Elementary workers | 279/1,568,083 | 25.0 (19.1–31.0) † | 20.0 (14.5–25.5) † |