Explained fraction (XF) of the income and poverty differential in odds of less than good health for manual and non-manual men and women in Sweden and Britain, 1992–95 Model A: controls for age, marital status and foreign born Model B: Model A plus income quintile groups Model C: Model A plus poverty (below 50% of median income)
| Odds ratios | XFincome | XFpoverty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model A | Model B | Model C | |||||
| Sweden | |||||||
| Non-manuals ref group5-150 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Men5-151 | 1.81 | 1.65 | 1.795-152 | 19.8% | 2.5% | ||
| Women5-151 | 1.83 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 13.2% | 0% | ||
| Britain | |||||||
| Non-manuals ref group5-150 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Men5-151 | 1.61 | 1.42 | 1.56 | 31.1% | 8.2% | ||
| Women5-151 | 1.51 | 1.27 | 1.40 | 47.0% | 21.6% | ||
↵5-150 The reference group, non-manuals, includes higher non-manuals and lower non-manuals.
↵5-151 The manual group includes qualified manual workers and unqualified manual workers.
↵5-152 An interaction term is included in this logistic regression model because of a strong negative interaction between poverty and foreign born.