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Table 2 Baseline characteristics for the study population

From: Workplace sexual harassment and depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis comparing harassment from clients or customers to harassment from other employees amongst 7603 Danish employees from 1041 organizations

 

Total

Sexual harassment from clients/customers

Sexual harassment from colleagues/supervisors/subordinates

Not exposed

 

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Total

7603

(100)

180

(2.4)

79

(1.0)

7344

(96.6)

Sex

 Men

3487

(45.9)

11

(0.3)

31

(0.9)

3445

(98.8)

 Women

4116

(54.1)

169

(4.1)

48

(1.2)

3899

(94.7)

Age(Mean = 46.0,SD = 10.9)

 18–29

689

(9.1)

28

(4.1)

22

(3.2)

639

(92.7)

 30–39

1352

(17.8)

29

(2.1)

19

(1.4)

1304

(96.4)

 40–49

2309

(30.4)

56

(2.4)

20

(0.9)

2233

(96.7)

 50+

3253

(42.8)

67

(2.1)

18

(0.6)

3168

(97.4)

Occupation

 Care work

2191

(28.8)

152

(6.9)

16

(0.7)

2023

(92.3)

 Knowledge work

1895

(24.9)

13

(0.7)

16

(0.8)

1866

(98.5)

 Industrial work

1364

(17.9)

≤ 3

 

15

(1.1)

1349

(98.9)

 Private service

1242

(16.3)

13

(1.0)

22

(1.8)

1207

(97.2)

 Building and construction

911

(12.0)

≤ 3

 

10

(1.1)

899

(98.7)

Socioeconomic status

 Senior manager in concerns, organizations and the public sector

342

(4.5)

4

(1.2)

≤ 3

 

336

(98.2)

 Employee in an occupation acquiring skills on the highest level

2393

(31.5)

42

(1.8)

18

(0.8)

2333

(97.5)

 Employee in an occupation acquiring skills on an intermediate level

885

(11.6)

≤ 3

 

12

(1.4)

876

(98.6)

 Employee in an occupation acquiring skills on ground level

3130

(41.2)

129

(4.1)

34

(1.1)

2967

(94.8)

 Other employees

853

(11.2)

5

(0.6)

13

(1.5)

835

(97.9)

Has the organization implemented activities to prevent sickness-absence?

 Yes (to a high degree/partly)

6246

(82.2)

159

(2.5)

65

(1.0)

6022

(96.4)

 No (to a low degree/ no/do not know)

1228

(16.2)

19

(1.5)

14

(1.1)

1195

(97.3)

 Not relevant

129

(1.7)

≤ 3

 

≤ 3

 

127

(98.4)

Were employees offered health insurance to cover treatment by specialists (physiotherapy, psychologist or similar?

 Yes (yes, offered during working hours/yes, offered outside of working hours)

5527

(72.7)

129

(2.3)

55

(1.0)

5343

(96.7)

 No (no/do not know)

2076

(27.3)

51

(2.5)

24

(1.4)

2001

(96.4)

Has the organization evaluated the psychosocial work environment?

 Yes (yes)

5857

(77.0)

157

(2.7)

65

(1.1)

5635

(96.2)

 No (no/do not know)

1746

(23.0)

23

(1.3)

14

(0.8)

1709

(97.9)

  1. ≤ 3. Due to restrictions regarding potential person-identifiability of data, counts of less than 3 participants cannot be reported