• 2006/07
• 2005/06

Occupation description +	Major group	Illness ascribed to their current/most recent job
		Sample cases	Estimated prevalence (thousands)			Rate per 100 000 employed in the last 12 months
			central	95% C.I.		central	95% C.I.
				lower	upper		lower	upper
Managers and senior officials	1	33	19	12	26	440	290	590
Professional occupations	2	32	17	11	24	460	300	620
Associate professional and technical occupations	3	76	40	31	50	990	760	1210
Administrative and secretarial occupations	4	25	14	8	19	400	240	560
Skilled trades occupations	5	74	40	31	49	1260	970	1550
Personal service occupations	6	60	34	25	43	1450	1070	1820
Sales and customer service occupations	7	13	*	*	*	*	*	*
Process, plant and machine operatives	8	50	28	20	35	1310	940	1670
Elementary occupations	9	38	22	15	28	610	410	800
All occupations (illness ascribed to the current or most recent job)		401	221	199	243	760	680	830
Other job caused or made illness worse#		109	59	48	70	..	..	..
Total (illness ascribed to any job)		510	280	255	305	960	870	1040

Notes:

.. Not applicable

* Sample numbers too small to provide reliable estimates.

+ Details of Standard Occupational Classification

# Includes those who did not answer the question identifying the job to which their illness was ascribed and those who said their illness was ascribed to a job other than their current or most recent in the last 12 months.

Figures in italics are estimates based on fewer than 30 sample cases.

• Definitions and data reliability
• See Table BACKOCC2SIG for tests of statistical significance