Table 3

Occupational asbestos exposure: proportion of exposed men in the most represented occupations and industries, French case-control study, 1998–2002

	Cases (362)				Controls (724)
	n	%	Exposed within job		n	%	Exposed within job
			n	%			n	%
Occupations (ISCO Edition 1968)
8-73 Sheet-metal workers	54	14.9	49	90.7	27	3.7	21	77.8
8-49 Machinery fitters, machine assemblers n.e.c.*	46	12.7	31	67.4	37	5.1	25	67.6
7-00 Production supervisors and general foremen	44	12.2	31	70.5	56	7.7	40	71.4
8-71 Plumbers and pipe fitters	39	10.8	36	92.3	14	1.9	12	85.7
8-41 Machinery fitters and machine assemblers	37	10.2	21	56.8	30	4.1	13	43.3
9-99 Labourers n.e.c.*	36	9.9	24	66.7	27	3.7	15	55.6
6-21 General farm workers	31	8.6	0	0.0	86	11.9	4	4.7
9-51 Bricklayers, stonemasons and tile setters	29	8.0	25	86.2	31	4.3	26	83.9
8-34 Machine-tool operators	26	7.2	14	53.8	29	4.0	7	24.1
9-54 Carpenters, joiners and parquetry workers	26	7.2	21	80.8	27	3.7	20	74.1
Industries (ISIC Revision 2)
5000 Construction	129	35.6	109	84.5	140	19.3	105	75.0
3841 Ship building and repairing	65	18.0	58	89.2	20	2.8	19	95.0
3813 Manufacture of structural metal products	52	14.4	43	82.7	30	4.1	20	66.7
1110 Agriculture and livestock production	48	13.3	5	10.4	145	20.0	32	22.1
6200 Retail trade	33	9.1	8	24.2	94	13.0	19	20.2
6100 Wholesale trade	29	8.0	9	31.0	74	10.2	13	17.6
3819 Manufacture of fabricated metal products except machinery and equipment n.e.c.*	24	6.6	13	54.2	24	3.3	6	25.0
9100 Public administration	24	6.6	6	25.0	71	9.8	11	15.5
3845 Manufacture of aircraft	23	6.4	10	43.5	27	3.7	10	37.0
9310 Education services	23	6.4	9	39.1	82	11.3	19	23.2