Although study participants were in a variety of occupations, occupation-related carriage rates combined with absolute figures were reported in fewer than 10 studies and only for nurses and physicians.
Occupations were categorized by their risk of contact with ticks: agricultural occupations, occupations requiring direct contact with animals, agricultural and direct contact occupations, or neither.
We therefore dichotomized "management, professional, and related occupations" occupations and levels of education greater than high school as high-SES, relegating "Sales and office" occupations and high-school level of education to the low-SES category.
Our study corroborates previous findings that agricultural occupations, occupations in medicine and health, electrical assembling installing and repairing occupations, and occupation as waiters and bartenders are associated with increased risk of UBC, particularly when duration of employment is 10 years or more.
Participants in high-risk occupations (occupations involving only agricultural work or agricultural work and direct contact with animals) and those who reported ever having hunted wild game had significantly higher odds of seropositivity.
Occupation "Occupation": this variable has the following categories: full or part-time; only part-time; retired/ disabled; homemaker; student, not working, other and self-employed.
Socioeconomic position (occupation, occupation at 25 years, father's occupation, mother's occupation, household income) 11.
Model 5 adjusted Model 4 + class of occupation, occupation, living in poverty, household income.
Occupation/Work (job, occupation, professional success, work, working place).
First, our occupational assessment was limited to current occupation rather than lifetime occupation.
The occupational level is categorized into five categories from 1 (low occupation), to 5 (high occupation), following the definition of Statistics Netherlands [ 21].
