Table 2.
Odds Ratios for Various Demographic and Health-Related Characteristics from Simple Logistic Regressions Using Telephone Usage as a Predictor
| Dependent Variables: Demographic Characteristics |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age≤40 | Male | Race: Non-Hispanic White | Family with Kids | Marital Status: Single | Education: Some College or More | Renter | Unemployed | |
| Independent Variables | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio |
| Intercept | 1.896*** | 1.402*** | 1.051 | 0.541*** | 0.848*** | 1.662*** | 0.536*** | 0.174*** |
| Telephone usage (reference group: cell-mostly) | ||||||||
| Cell-only | 1.429*** | 1.014 | 1.311** | 0.510*** | 2.521*** | 0.749** | 3.830*** | 1.541*** |
| Landline-mostly | 0.247*** | 0.609*** | 0.712*** | 1.287*** | 0.351*** | 1.146** | 0.601*** | 2.531*** |
| Landline-only | 0.288*** | 0.534*** | 1.987*** | 0.823*** | 0.800*** | 0.344*** | 1.778*** | 6.236*** |
| Dependent Variables: Health-Related Characteristics |
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| Fair/Poor Health | Serious Psych. Distress Past Month | Obese | Current Smoker | Binge Drinking Past Year | Sexually Transmitted Disease Test Past Year (Age≤70) | Currently Insured | Visited Doctor Past Year | |
| Independent Variables | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio | Odds Ratio |
| Intercept | 0.125*** | 0.027*** | 0.261*** | 0.179*** | 0.752*** | 0.346*** | 5.716*** | 3.956*** |
| Telephone usage (reference group: cell-mostly) | ||||||||
| Cell-only | 1.190 | 2.258*** | 0.972 | 1.816*** | 1.133 | 1.931*** | 0.499*** | 0.832# |
| Landline-mostly | 1.467*** | 0.953 | 1.091 | 0.669*** | 0.466*** | 0.462*** | 1.655*** | 1.435*** |
| Landline-only | 4.097*** | 2.354*** | 1.315*** | 0.984 | 0.316*** | 0.836** | 0.602*** | 0.899# |
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p<.1,
*p<.05,
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p<.01,
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p<.001.