British Civil Service employment grade was used as a measure of occupational position and was grouped into three categories: high (senior administrators), intermediate (executives, professionals and technical staff) and low (clerical and office support staff) [ 20].
Current (or last for retired participants) British civil service employment grade, defined on the basis of salary, was used as a measure of occupational position and was grouped into three categories: high (senior administrators), intermediate (executives, professionals, and technical staff) and low (clerical and office support staff) grades.
"People are trying to take the time to come up with something for the intermediate term," the executive added.
Occupational position is a three-level variable representing high (administrative), intermediate (professional or executive), and low (clerical or support) grades.
Occupational position was defined using the British civil service employment grade as high (administrative), intermediate (professional or executive), or low (clerical or support).
Participants were then classified using the civil service employment grade classification and grouped into 3 grade categories: high (administrative), intermediate (professional or executive), and low (clerical or support).
A summary of the type of data collected is shown in Table 2.> Blood samples for analysis at different levels in the biological process of converting DNA to intermediate RNA and executive proteins were collected.
For the January session, we requested volunteers in two different professional groups by the intermediate of the executive manager of each group (the National French Federation of Mutuality, which manages non for profit health centres with full-time of part time salaried GPs, and the National College of Teaching GPs).
The 12 possible employment grades of the civil service were classified into the three categories analyzed in this study as follows: administrative assistant, administrative officer and executive office (lower), higher executive office and senior executive office (intermediate), grades 7 to 1 (higher).
Baseline characteristics of the study participants are shown in Table 2. Most of the participants were in the intermediate employment grade categories (senior executive officer, higher executive officer, and executive officer: 45.0%) in phase 3 and in the high grade categories (unified grades 1 7: 45.6%) in phase 7. A total of 18.4% had been promoted during follow-up.
Selection was stratified to include adequate representation of higher (grades 7 to 1), intermediate (higher and senior executive office), and lower (administrative assistant, administrative officer, and executive office) grades.
