Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

60%
40%
20%
0%
-20%
-40%
-60%
During the last 12 months
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PHYSICAL STRESS AT WORK
37% 38% 40%
-4% -6% -4% -3%
has considerably increased has somewhat increased has decreased
LATVIA ESTONIA LITHUANIA FINLAND
Physical work stress - or, more precisely, its increase - is not linked to gender
in the same way as mental stress. In Estonia, there were in fact no differences
between men and women as regards prevalence of increased physical stress.
The men in Latvia experienced added physical stress a little more commonly
than did the women. In Finland, as also in Lithuania, the women felt that both
the physical and the mental stress at work had grown more commonly, and to
a greater degree, than did the men. Physical stress had increased the most of
all among the women in Lithuania - that is, the same group which had also
most commonly experienced an increase in mental stress. Altogether 43 % of
the Lithuanian women felt that their work had become more physically burdensome
than before.
22%