TABLE 4—

Results of Multivariate Logistic Regression

	Factors Associated With Agreement on Racial Classificationa			Factors Associated With Known vs Unknown Racial Classification
Independent Variables	Odds Ratio	Wald 95% Confidence Interval	P	Odds Ratio	Wald 95% Confidence Interval	P
Age	1.00	1.00, 1.00	.0448	1.01	1.01, 1.01	< .0001
Education > high school	0.83	0.80, 0.87	< .0001	0.81	0.80, 0.82	< .0001
Employment		.4004			< .0001
Employed	1.14	0.96, 1.35	0.95	0.88, 1.02
Retired	1.16	0.97, 1.40	0.93	0.86, 1.00
Unemployed	1.15	0.97, 1.37	1.14	1.06, 1.22
Other	Reference		Reference
Food sufficiency a problem	0.95	0.91, 0.99	.0098	1.08	1.06, 1.10	< .0001
Live alone	0.94	0.89, 0.99	.0113	1.00	0.98, 1.02	.7979
Married	1.01	0.96, 1.05	.8098	0.88	0.87, 0.90	< .0001
Sum of inpatient stays	1.03	1.02, 1.04	< .0001	8.59	8.32, 8.88	< .0001
Sum of outpatient visits	1.00	1.00, 1.00	.7043	1.04	1.04, 1.04	< .0001
Self-reported race/ethnicity			< .0001			< .0001
White	Reference		Reference
African American	0.25	0.24, 0.26	0.98	0.97, 1.00
Other	0.06	0.06, 0.06	1.34	1.30, 1.37
General health status (GH1)	1.00	0.98, 1.02	.8169	1.15	1.14, 1.16	< .0001

Note. GH1 = Response to General Health question 1 from the Veterans SF-36¹⁵ (“In general, would you say your health is excellent, very good, good, fair or poor?”).

^aIncludes only patients whose race was known in administrative data.