Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors Not Very Depressed

Well, that's the case in Canada at least. In a government survey, the lowest rate of depression (4.3 percent) occurred within the engineering, architecture, and surveying industries.

Government officials tracked depression within 21 major occupational categories. They combined data from 2004 through 2006 to estimate episodes of depression within the past year. That information came from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which registers lifetime and past-year depression bouts.

After the jump the entire list. I'm surprise by how low "mathematical and computer scientists" ranked.

[via CBC via Archinect]

-Personal care and service: 10.8

-Food preparation and serving related: 10.3

-Community and social services: 9.6

-Health care practitioners and technical: 9.6

-Arts, design, entertainment, sports and media: 9.1

-Education, training and library: 8.7

-Office and administrative support: 8.1

-Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance: 7.3

-Financial: 6.7

-Sales and related: 6.7

-Legal: 6.4

-Transportation and material moving: 6.4

-Mathematical and computer scientists: 6.2

-Production: 5.9

-Management: 5.8

-Farming, fishing and forestry: 5.6

-Protective service: 5.5

-Construction and extraction: 4.8

-Installation, maintenance and repair: 4.4

-Life, physical and social science: 4.4

-Engineering, architecture and surveyors: 4.3