Table 3

Average marginal effects (AMEs, with SE) of the independent variables on the probability of reporting economic hardship including or excluding medication access problems, by sex

	Women (n=79 326)						Men (n=59 998)
	No hardship		Hardship including medications		Hardship excluding medications		No hardship		Hardship including medications		Hardship excluding medications
	AME (SE)	P value	AME (SE)	P value	AME (SE)	P value	AME (SE)	P value	AME (SE)	P value	AME (SE)	P value
Economic activity (ref=full-time work)
Part-time work/retirement	−0.108 (0.010)	<0.001	0.062 (0.008)	<0.001	0.046 (0.008)	<0.001	−0.157 (0.018)	<0.001	0.119 (0.016)	<0.001	0.038 (0.011)	0.001
Old age retired	0.088 (0.004)	<0.001	−0.032 (0.003)	<0.001	−0.056 (0.003)	<0.001	0.042 (0.004)	<0.001	−0.008 (0.003)	0.005	−0.035 (0.003)	<0.001
Disability/illness	−0.290 (0.012)	<0.001	0.245 (0.012)	<0.001	0.045 (0.008)	<0.001	−0.266 (0.013)	<0.001	0.237 (0.013)	<0.001	0.028 (0.007)	<0.001
Unemployed	−0.274 (0.012)	<0.001	0.174 (0.011)	<0.001	0.100 (0.010)	<0.001	−0.287 (0.012)	<0.001	0.164 (0.010)	<0.001	0.123 (0.010)	<0.001
Family	−0.047 (0.012)	<0.001	0.030 (0.010)	0.002	0.017 (0.009)	0.049
Student	−0.180 (0.011)	<0.001	0.101 (0.009)	<0.001	0.079 (0.009)	<0.001	−0.175 (0.014)	<0.001	0.086 (0.011)	<0.001	0.089 (0.010)	<0.001
Year (ref=2018)
2013	0.016 (0.007)	0.027	−0.022 (0.006)	<0.001	0.006 (0.006)	0.242	−0.006 (0.008)	0.428	−0.009 (0.006)	0.165	0.015 (0.005)	0.006
2014	0.003 (0.008)	0.683	−0.011 (0.006)	0.083	0.008 (0.006)	0.191	−0.015 (0.009)	0.087	−0.015 (0.007)	0.033	0.030 (0.006)	<0.001
2015	<0.001 (0.008)	0.996	−0.012 (0.006)	0.054	0.012 (0.006)	0.042	−0.003 (0.009)	0.693	−0.015 (0.007)	0.025	0.019 (0.006)	0.003
2020	0.034 (0.008)	<0.001	−0.030 (0.007)	<0.001	−0.005 (0.006)	0.436	0.004 (0.009)	0.669	−0.016 (0.007)	0.028	0.012 (0.007)	0.067

Results are based on multinomial logistic regression (main effects).
Bold values denote statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level.