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. 2023 May 9;20(10):5767.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20105767.

Sector of Employment and Mortality: A Cohort Based on Different Administrative Archives

Lisa Bauleo  1 , Stefania Massari  2 , Claudio Gariazzo  2 , Paola Michelozzi  1 , Luca Dei Bardi  1   3 , Nicolas Zengarini  4 , Sara Maio  5 , Massimo Stafoggia  1 , Marina Davoli  1 , Giovanni Viegi  5 , Alessandro Marinaccio  2 , Giulia Cesaroni  1 ; BIGEPI Collaborative Group
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Sector of Employment and Mortality: A Cohort Based on Different Administrative Archives

Lisa Bauleo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Administrative data can be precious in connecting information from different sectors. For the first time, we used data from the National Social Insurance Agency (INPS) to investigate the association between the occupational sectors and both non-accidental and accidental mortality. We retrieved information on occupational sectors from 1974 to 2011 for private sector workers included in the 2011 census cohort of Rome. We classified the occupational sectors into 25 categories and analyzed occupational exposure as ever/never have been employed in a sector or as the lifetime prevalent sector. We followed the subjects from the census reference day (9 October 2011) to 31 December 2019. We calculated age-standardized mortality rates for each occupational sector, separately in men and women. We used Cox regression to investigate the association between the occupational sectors and mortality, producing hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). We analyzed 910,559 30+-year-olds (53% males) followed for 7 million person-years. During the follow-up, 59,200 and 2560 died for non-accidental and accidental causes, respectively. Several occupational sectors showed high mortality risks in men in age-adjusted models: food and tobacco production with HR = 1.16 (95%CI: 1.09-8.22), metal processing (HR = 1.66, 95%CI: 1.21-11.8), footwear and wood (HR = 1.19, 95%CI: 1.11-1.28), construction (HR = 1.15, 95%CI: 1.12-1.18), hotels, camping, bars, and restaurants (HR = 1.16, 95%CI: 1.11-1.21) and cleaning (HR = 1.42, 95%CI: 1.33-1.52). In women, the sectors that showed higher mortality than the others were hotels, camping, bars, and restaurants (HR = 1.17, 95%CI: 1.10-1.25) and cleaning services (HR = 1.23, 95%CI: 1.17-1.30). Metal processing and construction sectors showed elevated accidental mortality risks in men. Social Insurance Agency data have the potential to characterize high-risk sectors and identify susceptible groups in the population.

Keywords: administrative data; cohort study; mortality; occupational risk factor; occupational sector; routinely collected health data.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study. However, since it was funded by the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL) in the framework of the 2019–2021 Call on Research and Collaboration to promote collaboration between INAIL and other research entities, the colleagues and co-authors from INAIL were involved in the collection, analyses, interpretation of data and in the writing of the manuscript.

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Flowchart of the study population selection.
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Figure 2
Duration of employment (in years) by sector. Rome 2011, men (above) and women (below).
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Figure 3
Age-standardized mortality rates (per 10,000) for non-accidental (A) and accidental (B) mortality by sector of employment. Men and women, Rome 2011–2019.
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