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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Stud (Camb). 2009 Nov;63(3):295–306. doi: 10.1080/00324720903165464

Table 3.

Simple and multivariate ordinary least squares regressions of the M-MMSE score on measures of individual capital and other demographic attributes, adults 50 years and older (n = 643), rural Guatemala, 2005-2007

Simple OLS regressions Multivariate OLS regression
β(1) (se) p R 2 β(2) (se) p sR 2(3)


Intercept 14.436 ***
Economic capital
 Household standard-of-living score 1.099 (0.121) *** 0.120 0.522 (0.125) *** 0.020
Social capital
 Frequency of church attendance 0.053 (0.020) ** 0.049 0.036 (0.018) 0.013
 Lived alone 5 years prior 1.575 (0.544) ** 0.013 0.748 (0.488) 0.003
Intellectual capital
 Father’s grades of schooling 0.328 (0.102) *** 0.017 0.028 (0.104) 0.002
 Mother’s grades of schooling 0.230 (0.101) * 0.008 -0.045 (0.104) 0.000
 Own grades of schooling 0.817 (0.101) *** 0.130 0.654 (0.124) *** 0.053
 Own grades of schooling squared -0.037 (0.101) * -0.041 (0.017) *
Biological capital
 Z-score for height 0.789 (0.145) *** 0.054 0.277 (0.138) * 0.009
 Reported doctor-diagnosed diabetes 1.057 (0.423) * 0.012 0.931 (0.378) * 0.007
 Reported doctor-diagnosed stroke -0.518 (0.809) 0.003 -0.596 (0.706) 0.001
Other demographic attributes
 Age in years -0.935 (0.014) *** 0.063 -0.069 (0.014) *** 0.027
 Female gender -0.709 (0.252) ** 0.012 -0.759 (0.261) ** 0.010
 Age at first marriage 0.482 (0.183) ** 0.037 0.232 (0.171) 0.004
 Age at first marriage squared -0.009 (0.004) * -0.004 (0.004)
 Village of origin
  Conacaste -0.744 (0.332) * 0.012 -0.406 (0.293) 0.007
  Espiritu Santo -0.708 (0.372) -0.512 (0.332)
  San Juan -0.080 (0.359) 0.189 (0.318)
R 2 (full model) 0.296
(1)

Coefficients are adjusted only for the imputation of missing values.

(2)

Coefficients are adjusted for the imputation of missing values and all other variables.

(3)

Proportion of total variance in the M-MMSE score uniquely accounted for by X (controlling for other covariates).

p < .10

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001

Source. As for Table 1.