Research Article

Remission from Alcohol Use Disorder among Males in the Lundby Cohort during 1947–1997

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of males with known age at onset of AUD, n=312, at entry into the AUD cohort and males without AUD.

Total  
N=312
Total without AUD  
N=1433

Age in years (Median, q1-q3)31(20-44)30(12-46)
SES classification, n (%)
 Blue-collar workers240 (77.0)632 (62.9)
 White-collar workers42 (13.5)105 (10.53)
 Self-employed29 (9.3)267 (26.6)
Marital state, n (%)
 Unmarried68 (22)776 (54.2)
 Married/cohabitate175 (56.1)607 (42.4)
 Divorced50 (17.3)9 (0.6)
 Widow/widower19(6.1)41 (2.9)

Notes: q1-q3, Quartile 1-Quartile 3; SES, socioeconomic status. For males without AUD there was no SES information for 429 males, because children were not categorised into the socioeconomic classification.