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Published in final edited form as: Popul Stud (Camb). 2011 Mar;65(1):91–113. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2010.535554

Table 5.

Relative risk of dying for men aged 60–90, by ethnic/religious group, derived from piecewise-constant proportional hazard models, Bulgaria 1993–98

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Ethnic/religious group
Bulgarian Christians	1	1	1	1
Christian Roma	1.681^**	1.569^**	1.409^**	1.406^**
Muslim Roma	1.591^**	1.479^**	1.359^**	1.330^**
Turks	1.088^**	1.020^*	0.987	0.988
Pomaks	0.955^*	0.896^**	0.889^**	0.946^*
Year
1993	1	1	1	1
1994	1.007	1.010	1.014^*	1.014^*
1995	1.029^**	1.034^**	1.043^**	1.043^**
1996	1.030^**	1.039^**	1.051^**	1.051^**
1997	1.065^**	1.078^**	1.094^**	1.095^**
1998	1.031^**	1.047^**	1.066^**	1.067^**
Years of education
0–8		1	1	1
9–12		0.828^**	0.848^**	0.850^**
13–15		0.725^**	0.750^**	0.751^**
16+		0.704^**	0.733^**	0.733^**
Place of residence
Big city (100,000+ population)			1	1
Small town (< 100,000 population)			0.998	1.032^**
Village			0.921^**	0.950^**
Marital status
Married			1	1
Single			1.125^**	1.127^**
Divorced			1.507^**	1.504^**
Widowed			1.209^**	1.209^**
Standard of accommodation
Square meters/HH member			0.996^**	0.996^**
Non-substandard dwelling			1	1
Substandard dwelling (0 score on HH index)			1.158^**	1.163^**
Highest (4^th) quartile HH index			1	1
1^st quartile HH index			1.181^**	1.177^**
2^nd quartile HH index			1.063^**	1.059^**
3^rd quartile HH index			1.008	1.013

Notes: p values:

⁺

p < 0.10;

p < 0.05;

^**

p <0.01.

Model 4 includes controls for region of residence.

Source: As for Table 1