On prediction of vocational rehabilitation outcome at a Swedish employability institute.

Objective: The main objective of this investigation was to identify a set of variables usable in early outcome prediction of vocational rehabilitation.

Design: On commencement of rehabilitation at an employability institute, data were sampled using structured interviews and checklists. Two years later the subjects were followed up by telephone interviews.

Life satisfaction in 18- to 64-year-old Swedes: in relation to education, employment situation, health and physical activity.

Objective: The aim of this study is to relate different sociodemographic, health and physical activity parameters to levels of satisfaction with life as a whole and with 10 specific domains of life.

Design: Data on socio-demographic items were sampled, using strictly structured interviews, while a checklist (LiSat-11) was used for self-reported levels of life satisfaction.

Subjects: A nationally representative Swedish sample of 1207 women and 1326 men aged 18-64 years.

Life satisfaction in 18- to 64-year-old Swedes: in relation to gender, age, partner and immigrant status.

Satisfaction with life as a whole and with 10 domains of life was assessed in a nationally representative Swedish sample of 1207 women and 1326 men aged between 18 and 64 years, using a generic self-report checklist (LiSat-11), with levels of satisfaction ranging along a six-grade ordinal scale from 1 (very dissatisfied) to 6 (very satisfied). The main findings are that, with marginal exceptions, life satisfaction is gender independent, while age is systematically and positively associated with vocational and financial situations. Having no partner and being a first-generation immigrant implies for most LiSat-11 items a relatively low level of satisfaction.