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. 2009 Jun 16;338:b2025. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2025

Table 2.

 Odds ratios of screening history (ever mammogram, ever cervical smear) by sociodemographic characteristics, Great Britain 2005-7*

No in sample†: age 53-74/40-74 (n=1895/3148) No in sample†: ever mammogram 53-74/ever cervical smear 40-74 (n=1754/2851) Odds ratio (95% CI)
Ever v never mammogram (age 53-74) Ever v never cervical smear (age 40-74)
Age adjusted Fully adjusted‡ Age adjusted Fully adjusted‡
Cars available to household
0 462/674 403/575 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
1 950/1459 888/1307 2.30 1.67 (1.06 to 2.62) 1.39 1.03 (0.72 to 1.46)
≥2 483/1015 463/969 3.92 2.65 (1.34 to 5.26) 2.58 1.61 (0.97 to 2.67)
P value 0.01 0.09
Housing tenure
Rents 363/664 307/574 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Owns with mortgage 377/1128 357/1069 3.10 2.12 (1.12 to 4.00) 2.30 1.35 (0.87 to 2.10)
Owns outright 1155/1356 1090/1208 3.04 2.19 (1.39 to 3.43) 1.90 1.25 (0.89 to 1.77)
P value 0.002 0.3
Highest level of education qualification
No qualifications 902/1117 823/955 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Below degree level (including other) 800/1569 749/1459 1.37 1.00 (0.61 to 1.62) 2.00 1.48 (1.03 to 2.14)
Degree or equivalent 193/462 182/437 2.29 1.58 (0.70 to 3.60) 2.42 1.78 (1.01 to 3.13)
P value 0.5 0.06
National Statistics socioeconomic classification
Routine and manual occupations 839/1259 771/1102 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Intermediate occupations 459/739 424/686 0.99 0.71 (0.42 to 1.18) 1.92 1.51 (1.03 to 2.20)
Managerial and professional occupations 538/1038 506/967 1.55 0.97 (0.56 to 1.68) 1.83 1.24 (0.83 to 1.85)
Not classified 59/112 53/96 0.43 0.46 (0.17 to 1.25) 0.51 0.69 (0.37 to 1.28)
P value 0.3 0.06
Ethnicity
Other 119/259 105/222 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
White British 1776/2889 1649/2629 1.74 1.29 (0.62 to 2.67) 2.62 2.20 (1.41 to 3.42)
P value 0.5 0.0005
Region
North 501/829 464/759 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Midlands and East Anglia 506/845 466/766 1.10 1.00 (0.57 to 1.74) 0.95 0.95 (0.66 to 1.38)
London 163/300 145/264 0.74 0.78 (0.40 to 1.51) 0.55 0.71 (0.46 to 1.12)
South East 280/443 265/412 1.42 1.22 (0.63 to 2.35) 1.42 1.28 (0.76 to 2.17)
South West 177/284 170/261 2.80 2.37 (0.97 to 5.78) 1.15 1.06 (0.64 to 1.77)
Wales 71/125 66/110 1.50 1.25 (0.48 to 3.22) 0.74 0.77 (0.35 to 1.70)
Scotland 197/322 178/279 0.98 1.07 (0.60 to 1.93) 0.67 0.73 (0.44 to 1.19)
P value 0.9 0.4

*35 women with missing values on sociodemographic variables omitted from analysis.

†Numbers refer to unweighted sample.

‡Adjusted for age, cars, housing tenure, highest level of education, National Statistics socioeconomic classification, ethnic group, and region.