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

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LATVIA<br />

women<br />

men<br />

ESTONIA<br />

women<br />

men<br />

LITHUANIA<br />

women<br />

men<br />

Dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> last 12 months<br />

162<br />

PHYSICAL STRESS HAS INCREASED<br />

36%<br />

38%<br />

38%<br />

39%<br />

43%<br />

39%<br />

considerably <strong>in</strong>creased<br />

somewhat <strong>in</strong>creased<br />

FINLAND<br />

women<br />

26%<br />

men<br />

18%<br />

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%<br />

When <strong>the</strong> <strong>Baltic</strong> nations are compared with each o<strong>the</strong>r as regards trends <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

physical stressfulness of work, <strong>the</strong> result is <strong>the</strong> same as for mental stress. In all<br />

<strong>the</strong> countries, <strong>the</strong> number who have experienced <strong>in</strong>creased stress is many<br />

times greater than those feel<strong>in</strong>g that it has decreased. Taken generally, <strong>the</strong>refore,<br />

work is becom<strong>in</strong>g more burdensome than before. The speed or <strong>in</strong>tensity<br />

of <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>crease, however, has become lower <strong>in</strong> both Latvia and Estonia. In<br />

1998, a greater percentage of work<strong>in</strong>g people <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>se countries than <strong>in</strong> <strong>2002</strong><br />

felt that both <strong>the</strong> physical and <strong>the</strong> mental stress at work had grown. In Lithuania,<br />

<strong>the</strong> trend has been entirely <strong>the</strong> opposite. There, an <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> both physical<br />

and mental work stress was experienced by a def<strong>in</strong>itely greater proportion<br />

of work<strong>in</strong>g people <strong>in</strong> <strong>2002</strong> than <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> 1998 survey.

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