Determinants of all-cause mortality: results from multilevel parametric Weibull proportional hazard regression models (HRs and 95% CIs)
| Model 1 | Model 2 | |||
| HR | 95% CI | HR | 95% CI | |
| Individual level | ||||
| Generalised trust (group-mean centred) | 0.83 | 0.79 to 0.87 | 0.92 | 0.88 to 0.97 |
| Age | 1.07 | 1.07 to 1.08 | 1.07 | 1.07 to 1.08 |
| Race | ||||
| Black (ref: white) | 1.24 | 1.13 to 1.36 | ||
| Other race | 1.03 | 0.91 to 1.16 | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Female (ref: male) | 0.69 | 0.65 to 0.73 | ||
| Degree | ||||
| Less than high school High school (ref:) | 1.21 | 1.13 to 1.29 | ||
| Junior college | 0.84 | 0.73 to 0.97 | ||
| Bachelor | 0.84 | 0.77 to 0.91 | ||
| Graduate | 0.87 | 0.78 to 0.97 | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married (ref.) | ||||
| Widowed | 1.22 | 1.14 to 1.31 | ||
| Divorced | 0.99 | 0.92 to 1.08 | ||
| Separated | 1.11 | 0.97 to 1.26 | ||
| Never married | 1.32 | 1.21 to 1.44 | ||
| Income | ||||
| Household income (in 10 000 constant 1986 US$, group-mean centred) | 0.94 | 0.93 to 0.96 | ||
| Contextual level | ||||
| Generalised trust (level 2, aggregated level 1 trust, z-standardised) | 0.93 | 0.90 to 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.93 to 0.99 |
| Ln(p) | 0.504 | 0.512 | ||
| Residual variance (level 1) | 0.600 | 0.593 | ||
| Residual variance (level 2) | 0.006 | 0.004 | ||
| Level 2 variance explained | 60% | 73% | ||
Residual variance, level 1=0.921; residual variance, level 2=0.015
Data source: GSS–NDI: n=25 270; number of failures=6424. Data weighted with WTSSALL.
Statistically significant coefficients (p<0.05) boldfaced.
NDI, National Death Index; GSS, General Social Survey.