Multiple logistic regression model of association between family violence and employment status, adjusted for sociodemographic differences (long model)
| Factor | Odds ratio | 95% Confidence intervals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | ||||
| Employment status in 1992 | |||||
| Full time work | 1.00 | — | — | ||
| Part time work | 1.019 | 0.495 | 1.942 | ||
| Working w/Welfare | 3.338 | 1.104 | 9.029 | ||
| Non-employed | 0.993 | 0.588 | 1.644 | ||
| Employment history | |||||
| In past year number of weeks unemp/look work | 1.014 | 0.99 | 1.034 | ||
| Household characteristics | |||||
| Changed partner between 87 and 92 | 0.893 | 0.499 | 1.584 | ||
| No partner in 87 (new couples) | 1.293 | 0.843 | 1.997 | ||
| Total household income in 19922-150 | 0.792 | 0.582 | 1.081 | ||
| Total number of children in household in 92 | 1.222 | 1.057 | 1.403 | ||
| Age | 0.935 | 0.911 | 0.957 | ||
| Sex | |||||
| male | 1.00 | — | — | ||
| female | 1.398 | 0.917 | 2.129 | ||
| Years of education in 92 | 0.93 | 0.856 | 1.009 | ||
| Satisfaction with social relationship | 0.767 | 0.713 | 0.825 | ||
| Total number of drinks in past 30 days2-151 | 1.425 | 1.278 | 1.593 | ||
| Ethnicity | |||||
| White | 1 | — | — | ||
| African American | 1.637 | 0.884 | 2.882 | ||
| Others | 0.84 | 0.375 | 1.687 | ||
| Physical condition | |||||
| Any health condition limiting working for pay? | |||||
| No | 1 | — | — | ||
| Yes | 1.008 | 0.343 | 2.487 | ||
| 1987 variables | |||||
| In 1987 did arguments became physical? | |||||
| No | 1.00 | — | — | ||
| Yes | 5.514 | 3.048 | 9.711 | ||
| Did respondent had alcohol problems in 1987? | |||||
| No | 1.00 | — | — | ||
| Yes | 1.394 | 0.5 | 3.361 | ||
↵2-150 Income in thousands of dollars **0.25.
↵2-151 Log (alcohol number + 0.5). In all our analyses the data were weighted to control for the over-sampling procedure and to replicate the US distribution using the weights prepared by the NSFH researchers. For details see: Sweet JA, Bumpass LL, Call VRA.41