TABLE 5.

Prevalences and ORs of asthma-like symptoms for parental and household factors in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children^*

Factors	Aboriginal children		Non-Aboriginal children
	Asthma-like symptoms, %	OR (95% CI)	Asthma-like symptoms, %	OR (95% CI)
Mother’s age at birth, years
15–24	17.6	1.15 (0.58–2.27)	25.5	1.31 (0.65–2.66)
25–34	19.0	1.38 (0.71–2.66)	15.4	0.86 (0.45–1.63)
≥35	15.2	1	17.8	1
Mother’s education level
Less than secondary	14.3	0.88 (0.48–1.60)	23.3	1.49 (0.71–3.16)
Secondary	23.1	1.62 (0.63–3.82)	21.5	1.32 (0.70–2.51)
High school	18.9	1.30 (0.71–2.36)	14.1	0.77 (0.45–1.31)
College or higher	15.9	1	17.5	1
Mother’s allergy
Yes	28.3	1.97 (1.09–3.56)	20.3	1.26 (0.75–2.12)
No	15.6	1	16.6	1
Mother’s asthma
Yes	27.1	1.70 (0.57–5.05)	18.2	1.08 (0.58–2.03)
No	16.7	1	17.5	1
Mother’s smoking habit
Daily	19.3	1.61 (1.05–2.50)	21.7	1.47 (0.95–2.33)
Occasional	15.5	1.34 (0.87–1.81)	21.7	1.46 (0.21–2.71)
None	12.8	1	16.1	1
Mother’s marital status
Married	17.0	1.16 (0.59–2.29)	17.8	1.04 (0.58–1.88)
Single	21.6	1.63 (0.74–3.60)	28.7	2.03 (0.79–5.31)
Divorced	13.8	1	16.3	1
Household income, $
<15,000	15.2	0.98 (0.63–1.54)	24.4	1.75 (0.73–4.18)
15,000–40,000	19.8	1.27 (0.82–1.95)	18.1	1.05 (0.64–1.73)
≥40,000	16.5	1	17.8	1
Own dwelling
Yes	16.8	0.97 (0.64–1.45)	16.5	0.70 (0.45–1.07)
No	17.0	1	20.5	1
Number of rooms in the dwelling
≥3	16.0	0.77 (0.52–1.13)	18.5	1.17 (0.66–2.07)
≤2	19.9	1	15.8	1
Dwelling needs repair
Yes	18.7	1.21 (0.84–1.75)	19.2	1.11 (0.70–1.72)
No	15.9	1	17.7	1
Territory
Yukon	20.0	1.08 (0.71–1.67)	15.9	1.38 (0.56–3.39)
Northwest Territories	13.4	0.63 (0.41–1.03)	21.3	1.92 (1.36–4.96)
Nunavut	19.3	1	12.9	1

^*Results are from logistic regression analysis for correlated data with normalized cross-sectional weights