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Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Dec 11;65(2):137–143. doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.087379

Table 2.

Variance of the area random effect estimated from separate two-level (individuals, areas) empty multilevel survival models for CHD incidence (adjusted for age and gender), GAZEL cohort, 1990–2000, men and women

	Full population	Intermediate or low urbanicity degree	High urbanicity degree
Full sample
Geographical scale
Municipality level	0.235 (p=0.32)	0.083 (p=0.43)	0.262 (p=0.32)
County level	0.048 (p=0.19)	0.001 (p=0.45)	0.132 (p=0.06)
Region level	0.038 (p=0.04)	0.001 (p=0.50)	0.135 (p=0.003)
Among males
Geographical scale
Municipality level	0.150 (p=0.39)	0.021 (p=0.39)	0.204 (p=0.370)
County level	0.044 (p=0.21)	0.001 (p=0.45)	0.103 (p=0.110)
Region level	0.040 (p=0.055)	0.001 (p=0.49)	0.125 (p=0.008)