Working life expectancy in employees over fifty in municipal and wellbeing services county occupations
Description
A decline in birth rates, increased life expectancy, and subsequent ageing population have significantly raised the old-age dependency ratio over the past two decades. This creates pressure to increase work participation and lengthen the working careers. However, different occupations have different work disability risks related to both individual and work characteristics, resulting in differences in working life expectancy. We have modelled the working life expectancy in different professions for people over the age of fifty using data collected in the Finnish Public Sector study (FPS) conducted by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. These data allow estimating the probabilities of labour market exit. The working life expectancy modelling was carried out in collaboration with the University of Turku and funded by the Finnish Work Environment Fund (project no. 230161).What do the indicators show?
The data are based on FPS study cohorts from 2000-02, 2004, 2008 and 2011-12 (n = 47,688). Work participation during the follow-up was ascertained utilising linked data from the Earnings and Accrual Register, maintained by the Finnish Centre for Pensions. The register contains data on all Finnish residents’ earnings (e.g., wages and salaries from employment, self-employment, and social security benefits that accrue pension benefits) The data also covers the start and end dates of all employments/job contracts. The working life expectancy calculation was based on three-month periods. A person was defined as working if the three-month period included at least one working day and as not working if the three-month period did not include any work at all. Mortality was obtained from Statistics Finland’s register. Participants were followed from age 50 until the first of the following occurred: age 68 years, death, or the end of the register follow-up 31st December 2018. All participants were working at baseline.We used the occupational classification of Statistics Finland (occupational classification 2001). There are more than 150 people in all occupational groups, but the exact group sizes are not provided to protect the anonymity of the participants. Each occupation is provided with the occupation code and occupation title according to the classification. Occupational groups with one digit accuracy are compilation groups containing the occupations of the category in question that are not specified with more detailed codes. For example, '1 other manager', which includes all other managers except the separately listed '12291 manager in the educational sector' and '12292 manager in the social and health care sector'.
