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. 2025 Feb 16;54(2):dyaf019.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaf019.

Cohort Profile: The Nor-Work Cohort

Rachel L Hasting  1 , Suzanne L Merkus  2 , Karina Undem  1 , Jorunn Kirkeleit  1 , Rune Hoff  1 , Jon Michael Gran  3   4 , Karl-Christian Nordby  1 , Ingrid S Mehlum  1   5   6   7
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Cohort Profile: The Nor-Work Cohort

Rachel L Hasting et al. Int J Epidemiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cohort profile; occupational exposure; occupational health; working life.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Overview over the sources of the key variable categories in the Nor-Work cohort. * denotes whether companies had signed the national agreement on a more inclusive working life (the IA agreement).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The number of employees in each major occupational group, registered using the Norwegian classification of occupations (STYRK-98, based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)), from 2003 to 2021. The line drawn at 2007 indicates the point at which occupational data were recorded for all employees, including those in the public sector.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The number of individuals registered in work, sickness absence, disability pension, retirement pension, and unemployment in the period 1993–2020. Note that individuals can be registered in more than one work-related category in a given year.
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