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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2011 Jul 5;36(6):866–875. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2011.134

Table 4.

Random-effects logistic regression models of the association between education and overweight (BMI≥25) over survey period

Females Males

Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval) Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)

<Primary School 1.0 1.0
Primary School 0.90 (0.54, 1.49) 0.63 (0.29, 1.4)
Secondary School 0.80 (0.40, 1.60) 1.21 (0.50, 2.9)
>Secondary School 0.78 (0.29, 2.12) 1.77 (0.64, 4.8)
Time × Primary School 1.01 (0.98, 1.05) 1.07 (1.01, 1.1)
Time × Secondary School 0.98 (0.94, 1.02) 1.03 (0.97, 1.1)
Time × >Secondary School 0.92 (0.87, 0.98) 1.04 (0.97, 1.1)
Time 1.17 (1.13, 1.20) 1.39 (1.26, 1.5)
Mean Time 0.90 (0.86, 0.94) -
Time Squared - 0.99 (0.99, 0.99)
Birth Cohort (1= before 1955) 0.21 (0.03, 1.58) 0.99 (0.99, 1.0)
Birth Cohort × Time - 1.57 (0.83, 3.0)
Birth Cohort × Primary School 1.18 (0.73, 1.92) -
Birth Cohort × Seconday School 1.65 (0.69, 3.99) -
Birth Cohort × >Secondary School 1.48 (0.57, 3.87) -
Urbanicity1 1.02 (1.01, 1.04) 1.02 (1.01, 1.0)
Mean Urbancity1,2 0.98 (0.97, 1.00) 1.01 (0.99, 1.0)
Birth Cohort × Urbanicity2 0.98 (0.97, 1.00) 0.98 (0.95, 1.0)
Birth Cohort × Mean Urbanicity1,2 1.05 (1.02, 1.07) 1.06 (1.03, 1.1)
Person-specific Mean Age1,2 1.53 (1.29, 1.82) 1.63 (1.46, 1.8)
Person-specific Mean Age Squared1,2 1.00 (1.00, 1.01) 0.99 (0.99, 1.0)
Birth Cohort × Mean Age1,2 1.41 (0.66, 3.03) -
Birth Cohort × Mean Age Squared1,2 1.00 (0.99, 1.01) -
Current Smoker -
-
0.68 (0.56, 0.8)
-
Intercept 0.02 (0.01, 0.04) 0.002 (0.0007, 0.005)

Number of Observations 23,068 18,693
N 7,314 6,492
1

Variable means are the person-specific mean value for these variables over the survey period. The coefficient on the variable for the person-specific mean represents the difference between the between and within effects for each variable. These are included for time-varying variables for which the between and within coefficients were significantly different (24).

2

Urbanicity, mean urbanicity, mean age and mean age squared were mean centered before inclusion in the random-effects logistic regression.