Andjelka Stones and David Perry
University of Westminster
United Kingdom

Type of Employment and Panic Attacks

We make no apologies for this being a long page! We thought it would be of interest to let the world see the type of employment categories that respondents give in our WWW questionnaire survey. In the questionnaire, we ask respondents to write in their occupations or if not employed to check a box to indicate this. What follows are some figures on % employment, followed by a table which lists the occupations given by a group of respondents taken at random from the summer of 1997. The list is simply in the order in which the questionnaires came in and without any editing by us.
It has been suggested that panic attack is most likely to be found in single, unemployed females with young families - clearly the data below do not support this!

The figure shows the responses relating to employment. About one third of respondents checked the 'Not Employed' box and two thirds listed an occupation. There are only small differences between genders here.

We felt that income (with connotations of 'social class' etc.) was not something germane to this survey (it has been suggested that people falsify information on income more than anything else anyway!). We did ask people to state their employment type, however, and some responses are given below.

Employment stated:

Homemaker Teacher Programmer/Business Owner Pharmacist Electronic technician Motorcycle business Housewife Transcriptionist Homemaker Audio engineer/producer Benefits coordinator Human resources manager Telephone operator/receptionist Freelance design consultant Comerciante. Fast-Food Director of a drop-in center Marketing director Assistant director Sales rep mother teacher civil servant bookkeeper engineer repair, television General Manager Student/Geophysical analyst Research ssistant medical biller technical writer student assistant network administrator office manager temp School psychologist education/trainer Dental technician Manager - Info Tech Division University teacher runs home office

Development researcher, University meducal secretary Assistant business manager Graduate assistant tv producer writer/editor student teacher computer student journalist self emp & Loader for UPS University Professor ESL Teacher mother/housewife chemist marketing Administrative secretary student student retail home improvement weaver clinton mills musican/songwriter self on disability dog trainer auto service manager restaurant owner fast food restaurant homemaker library clerk office manager IT consultant physician assistant prekindergarten teacher accountant PhD student Early chlidhood teacher System analyst mental health worker

sales rep student Home duties sa;es manager LAN administrator Lego systems lecturer, book editor investigator child day care Computer system manager secretary visiting professor Fire chief owner of computer store student /lifeguard marketing coordinator s/w engineer teacher sales/service rep student Uni technician housewife self employed freelance international commodity trader engineer retail store management classroom teacher manager customer service rep, telecommunications financial planning manager student computer scientist teacher emergency dept. R.N. director new business i marketing secretary computer admin assistant audio engineer

© D. Perry 1998.

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