Table 3.

Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of self-reported reduced working capacity due to longstanding illness in Model I (age- and sex-adjusted) and Model II (main effect model also adjusted for all other explanatory variables) among people with paid employment.

Explanatory variables	Categories and levels	Model I	Model II
		OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Sickness Absence (days)	0–28	1 (Reference)	1 (Reference)
	29–90	3.54 (3.09–4.06)	3.20 (2.79–3.68)
	>90	19.0 (16.7–21.6)	17.7 (15.5–20.2)
Sex	Male		1.16 (1.06–1.27)
	Female		1 (Reference)
De facto marital Status	Living alone		1.15 (1.04–1.27)
	Married/cohabiting		1 (Reference)
Occupational status	Unskilled manual workers		1.61 (1.43–1.81)
	Skilled manual workers		1.56 (1.38–1.77)
	Lower-level employees		1.51 (1.33–1.71)
	Middle-level employees and professionals		1 (Reference)
Employment	Part-time		1.79 (1.62–1.98)
	Full-time		1 (Reference)
Housing Tenure	Renting		1.10 (1.00–1.21)
	Owning		1 (Reference)
Quality of physical working environment	Poor		1.36 (1.23–1.51)
	Good		1 (Reference)
Presence of stress at work	Yes		1.34 (1.23–1.46)
	No		1 (Reference)
Work-related social support	Poor		1.17 (1.01–1.36)
	Good		1 (Reference)
Model fit Hosmer-Lemeshow	p-value	0.98	0.91