Education and employment in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis – a standardized comparison to the German general population

Table 4 Age- and sex-standardized comparison of the unemployment rate of the study population and the GGP

				Unemployment
	Age groups^a [years]	N GGP^b	N Sepia	GGP^b n (%)	SEPIA n (%)	Standardized SEPIA n (%)^c
Men	20–34	6,135,000	342	427,000 (6.96)	13 (3.80)	233,202 (3.80)
	35–49	8,431,000	355	381,000 (4.52)	20 (5.63)	474,986 (5.63)
	50–64	9,904,000	74	3,680,000 (37.16)	11 (14.86)	1,472,216 (14.86)
Women	20–34	5,335,000	616	312,000 (5.85)	36 (5.84)	311,786 (5.84)
	35–49	7,336,000	391	336,000 (4.58)	69 (17.65)	1,294,588 (17.65)
	50–64	5,650,000	112	291,000 (5.13)	34 (30.36)	1,715,178 (30.36)
Total		42,791,000	1890	5,427,000 (12.68)	183 (9.68)	5,501,956 (12.86)
Standardized Difference %^d (95% CI)^e						0.18 (0.16; 0.19)

^aCategorization of age groups was set by the data on employment of the German General population of the Federal Statistical Office Germany
^bGGP = German general population [Ref.]
^cStandardized proportion of the SEPIA study population
^dStandardized Difference (%) = Standardized Proportion of SEPIA (%) – Proportion of GGP (%)
^e95% CI = 95% Confidence Interval

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