TABLE 4.

Odds Ratios for Having Health Insurance from Own Employer/Union (N=80,827)

Risk Factors^a	(1) Base	(2) Occupation	(3) Other employment	(4) Demo- graphics	(5) Full
Race/Ethnicity (Non-Hispanic White)
African American	0.87^**	0.91^**	0.78^**	0.93^**	0.97
Mexican Origin	0.37^**	0.48^**	0.42^**	0.82^**	0.73^**
Occupation (Management)
Architecture and engineering		2.51^**	1.26^**	1.19^**	1.21^**
Healthcare practitioner and technical		1.24^**	1.16^*	1.06	1.05
Computer and mathematical sciences		1.77^**	1.01	1.01	1.00
Life, physical, and social sciences		1.84^**	0.96	0.95	0.98
Office and administrative support		1.14^**	0.67^**	0.88^**	0.98
Legal		1.05	0.99	0.85^**	0.95
Installation, maintenance and repair		0.95	0.64^**	0.84^**	0.88^**
Production		1.26^**	0.56^**	0.83^**	0.88^**
Public safety, protective service		2.21^**	0.65^**	0.83^**	0.91
Business and financial operations		1.17^**	0.87^**	0.83^**	0.90
Sales		0.75^**	0.67^**	0.77^**	0.82^**
Education, training and library		1.91^**	0.71^**	0.73^**	0.88
Transportation and material moving		0.71^**	0.51^**	0.72^**	0.73^**
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, media		0.61^**	0.60^**	0.67^**	0.69^**
Healthcare support		0.60^**	0.42^**	0.64^**	0.72^*
Construction and extraction		0.40^**	0.45^**	0.64^**	0.63^**
Community and social service		1.10	0.58^**	0.59^**	0.64^**
Building and grounds cleaning, maintenance		0.49^**	0.33^**	0.58^**	0.64^**
Personal care and service		0.36^**	0.38^**	0.52^**	0.55^**
Farming, fishing and forestry		0.24^**	0.25^**	0.43^**	0.41^**
Food preparation and serving		0.24^**	0.20^**	0.38^**	0.41^**
Industry (Professional)
Manufacturing			1.66^**	1.71^**	1.81^**
Services			0.87^**	0.94^**	0.96
Construction and agriculture			0.60^**	0.69^**	0.72^**
Fulltime Employment (Part-time)			5.02^**	3.96^**	3.32^**
Employment Sector (Private)
Public			2.84^**	2.41^**	2.42^**
Self-employed			0.20^**	0.18^**	0.16^**
Education (High School)
Less than high school				0.71^**	0.67^**
Some college or associates degree				1.19^**	1.22^**
Bachelors or higher				1.48^**	1.45^**
Marital Status (Never Married)
Married				1.13^**	1.66^**
Divorced, separated, widowed				1.50^**	1.29^**
Age (18-35 years)
36 – 47 years				1.29^**	1.30^**
48 – 64 years				1.42^**	1.42^**
U.S. Citizen (Not a Citizen)				1.69^**	1.94^**
Family Size				1.08^**	1.13^**
Family Income to Poverty Ratio (<1.00)
1.00 to 1.99				1.95^**	2.10^**
2.00 to 2.99				3.32^**	4.32^**
3.00 to 3.99				4.10^**	6.40^**
4.00 or greater				4.23^**	8.37^**
Had Health Insurance as a Dependent					0.07^**

− 2LL_i	104652	99597	89026	85493	72364
−2LL_i−(−2LL_i−1)^b	2084^**	5055^**	10571^**	3533^**	13129^**
Pseudo R-Square ^c	0.02	0.07	0.17	0.20	0.32
Akaike Information Criterion	104660	99647	89088	85581	72454

Increase in −2LL₅ if model 5 excludes the:	Occupation variable	472 ^**
	Non-occupation employment variables	7,832 ^**
	All employment variables	10,290 ^**
	Demographic variables	6,579 ^**

p ≤ 0.05

^**

p≤ 0.01.

Reference group in parentheses.

Significance indicates improvement over the previous model.

Pseudo R-square estimated with the formula [−2LL₀−(−2LL_i)] / [−2LL₀], using the log likelihood from the intercept only model (−2LL₀ = 106736) for all estimates.

Source: 2004 and 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplements, Current Population Survey.