Table 3

Variables associated with illness and health service use: results of stepwise logistic regression

		Asthma			Longstanding illness			4 or more visits to GP			Use of outpatients			Use of inpatients			Use of casualty
		B	SE		Sig	B		SE	Sig		B	SE		Sig	B		SE	Sig	B	SE	Sig	B	SE	Sig
(Constant)	−1.531	0.202	0.000	−0.458	0.159	0.004	0.050	0.160	0.757	−1.310	0.215	0.000	−0.902	0.270	0.001	−2.270	1.021	0.026
Age	−0.018	0.004	0.000	0.029	0.003	0.000				0.012	0.003	0.000	−0.014	0.004	0.002	−0.023	0.006	0.000
Sex
female				0.174	0.066	0.009	0.911	0.072	0.000	0.235	0.080	0.004	0.418	0.097	0.000	−0.415	0.128	0.001
(^3-150male)
Employment status						0.000			0.000			0.000			0.000
student				0.024	0.181	0.894	−0.007	0.190	0.970	0.058	0.238	0.808	−0.616	0.359	0.086
retired				0.747	0.151	0.000	0.841	0.165	0.000	0.522	0.184	0.005	0.692	0.211	0.001
unable to work				3.922	0.505	0.000	2.821	0.226	0.000	2.044	0.186	0.000	1.848	0.188	0.000
unemployed				0.299	0.187	0.110	0.574	0.197	0.004	0.595	0.221	0.007	0.354	0.272	0.193
caring				0.088	0.120	0.466	0.504	0.125	0.000	0.195	0.157	0.215	0.700	0.145	0.000
part time				0.019	0.082	0.821	0.066	0.089	0.458	0.060	0.107	0.577	0.206	0.119	0.082
(^3-150full time)
Home not warm enough			0.003			0.000			0.000			0.001
most of the time	0.522	0.287	0.070	0.640	0.194	0.001	0.591	0.200	0.003	0.762	0.215	0.000
quite often	0.632	0.195	0.001	0.472	0.131	0.000	0.447	0.136	0.001	0.056	0.171	0.746
only occasionally	0.204	0.112	0.068	0.207	0.062	0.001	0.207	0.069	0.003	0.212	0.079	0.007
(^3-150never)
Smells and fumes						0.001
serious problem				0.369	0.128	0.004
minor problem				0.182	0.064	0.005
(^3-150no problem)
Smoking			0.002			0.000			0.000
current	−0.029	0.132	0.826	0.074	0.072	0.303	0.082	0.081	0.315
ex smoker	0.380	0.117	0.001	0.361	0.064	0.000	0.306	0.074	0.000
(^3-150never)
Passive smoking									0.002									0.001
every day							0.157	0.176	0.375							0.471	0.349	0.177
most days							0.230	0.165	0.163							0.573	0.332	0.085
occasionally							−0.070	0.151	0.642							0.068	0.320	0.831
(^3-150never)
Alcohol
none							0.377	0.094	0.000
(^3-150drinker)
Vigorous exercise						0.000			0.000
5+ per week				−0.291	0.164	0.076	−0.509	0.202	0.012
3–4 per week				−0.363	0.103	0.000	−0.550	0.124	0.000
1–2 per week				−0.199	0.071	0.005	−0.263	0.080	0.001
<1 per week				−0.226	0.079	0.004	−0.164	0.088	0.063
(^3-150never)
Worry about money									0.000
all of the time							0.599	0.151	0.000
a lot of the time							0.273	0.123	0.026
some of the time							0.168	0.111	0.131
a little of the time							0.003	0.107	0.975
(^3-150never)
Worry about work						0.000			0.002			0.007
all of the time				0.761	0.145	0.000	0.518	0.157	0.001	0.529	0.174	0.002
a lot of the time				0.322	0.108	0.003	0.338	0.117	0.004	0.346	0.133	0.009
some of the time				0.238	0.094	0.012	0.139	0.106	0.187	0.329	0.119	0.006
a little of the time				0.162	0.090	0.073	0.087	0.102	0.394	0.142	0.119	0.232
(^3-150never)
Worry about job security															0.008
all of the time													0.265	0.262	0.313
a lot of the time													0.549	0.155	0.000
some of the time													0.248	0.125	0.048
a little of the time													0.131	0.106	0.217
(^3-150never)

↵3-150 = reference category. Odds ratios and their 95% confidence intervals can be calculated as follows: odds ratio = EXP (B); 95% CI approximately EXP (B ± 1.96 × SE(B))