Table 2 Multilevel associations between AIDS‐related mortality and individual‐(educational level and age group) and community‐level (neighbourhood deprivation) effects by transmission groups in men.
| Independent variables and neighbourhood variability | IDUs | Homosexual/bisexual | Heterosexual/other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | RR | 95% CI | n | RR | 95% CI | n | RR | 95% CI | n | RR | 95% CI | |
| Pre‐HAART (1991–6) | ||||||||||||
| 20–39‐year age group | ||||||||||||
| Illiterate and no education | 50 | 4.30 | 3.08 to 6 | 10 | 2.48 | 1.47 to 4.17 | 5 | 5.1 | 1.6 to 16.28 | 76 | 4.69 | 3.63 to 6.07 |
| Primary not finished | 260 | 3.21 | 2.74 to 3.75 | 44 | 1.38 | 1.04 to 1.83 | 15 | 1.99 | 0.98 to 4.04 | 354 | 2.81 | 2.54 to 3.12 |
| Primary finished or more | 297 | 1 | 151 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 525 | 1 | ||||
| ⩾40‐year age group* | ||||||||||||
| Illiterate and no education | 7 | 1.84 | 0.75 to 4.52 | 35 | 0.66 | 0.45 to 0.96 | 20 | 0.84 | 0.51 to 1.38 | 74 | 0.57 | 0.43 to 0.77 |
| Primary not finished | 36 | 3.07 | 1.77 to 5.31 | 88 | 0.93 | 0.79 to 1.1 | 23 | 0.66 | 0.41 to 1.06 | 166 | 0.86 | 0.72 to 1.04 |
| Primary finished or more | 20 | 1 | 157 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 251 | 1 | ||||
| Neighbourhood deprivation† | ||||||||||||
| 1, Most deprived | 3.99 | 2.56 to 6.21 | 2.31 | 1.07 to 4.97 | 3.75 | 2.6 to 5.41 | 3.13 | 2.10 to 4.66 | ||||
| 2 | 1.54 | 1.02 to 2.33 | 0.75 | 0.38 to 1.45 | 1.19 | 0.86 to 1.65 | 1.15 | 0.80 to 1.66 | ||||
| 3 | 1.11 | 0.73 to 1.68 | 0.89 | 0.47 to 1.68 | 1.21 | 0.87 to 1.68 | 1.01 | 0.71 to 1.42 | ||||
| 4 | 1.03 | 0.71 to 1.5 | 1.12 | 0.59 to 2.11 | 0.78 | 0.51 to 1.2 | 1.02 | 0.73 to 1.44 | ||||
| 5, Least deprived | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Variability | p Value | Variability | p Value | Variability | p Value | Variability | p Value | |||||
| Neighbourhood variability | 0.0428 | 0.062 | 0.3085 | <0.001 | <0.001 | >0.5 | 0.0583 | <0.001 | ||||
| Post‐HAART (1997–2001) | ||||||||||||
| 20–39‐year age group | ||||||||||||
| Illiterate and no education | 15 | 7.99 | 4.24 to 15.05 | 3 | 4.94 | 1.3 to 18.78 | 0 | 0‡ | 0 to ∞‡ | 19 | 4.68 | 2.72 to 8.07 |
| Primary not finished | 59 | 3.96 | 2.41 to 6.5 | 4 | 0.95 | 0.25 to 3.61 | 5 | 2.28 | 0.67 to 7.82 | 86 | 3.02 | 1.88 to 4.86 |
| Primary finished or more | 52 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 89 | 1 | ||||
| ⩾40‐year age group* | ||||||||||||
| Illiterate and no education | 4 | 2.35 | 0.7 to 7.90 | 6 | 0.84 | 0.32 to 2.2 | 4 | 0.69 | 0.21 to 2.22 | 26 | 0.82 | 0.5 to 1.33 |
| Primary not finished | 13 | 1.48 | 0.59 to 3.71 | 14 | 0.86 | 0.48 to 1.56 | 14 | 1.11 | 0.49 to 2.51 | 60 | 0.93 | 0.65 to 1.34 |
| Primary finished or more | 17 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 84 | 1 | ||||
| Neighbourhood deprivation† | ||||||||||||
| 1, Most deprived | 11.56 | 5.19 to 25.77 | 8.60 | 3.58 to 20.63 | 8.10 | 3.3 to 19.86 | 11.39 | 6.39 to 20.28 | ||||
| 2 | 5.75 | 2.65 to 12.51 | 1.66 | 0.64 to 4.34 | 1.20 | 0.48 to 3 | 3.17 | 1.96 to 5.12 | ||||
| 3 | 2.35 | 0.98 to 5.68 | 1.81 | 0.68 to 4.86 | 0.73 | 0.24 to 2.21 | 1.74 | 0.96 to 3.16 | ||||
| 4 | 1.64 | 0.73 to 3.67 | 1.58 | 0.54 to 4.57 | 0.77 | 0.34 to 1.72 | 1.38 | 0.76 to 2.52 | ||||
| 5, Least deprived | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Variability | p Value | Variability | p Value | Variability | p Value | Variability | p Value | |||||
| Neighbourhood variability | <0.001 | >0.5 | <0.001 | 0.269 | <0.001 | 0.459 | 0.0687 | 0.058 | ||||
HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy; IDUs, injecting drug users.
Barcelona, in the pre‐HAART (1991–1996) and post‐HAART (1997–2001) periods.
*IDUs 40–49‐year age group.
†Percentage male unemployment.
‡The number of cases in the socioeconomic group is 0.