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TABLE 4.

Parameter Estimates From Final Model of Caregiver Self-Reported Health (excellent/very good vs good/fair/poor): National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, Canada, 1994–2005

	b (SE)	OR
Baseline effects
Intercept	1.67^* (0.09)
Caregiving status
Caregivers of healthy children (Ref)	0.00	1.00
Caregivers of children with 1 indicator	–0.36^* (0.07)	0.69^*
Caregivers of children with 2 indicators	–0.56^* (0.08)	0.57^*
Caregivers of children with ≥ 3 indicators	–1.07^* (0.11)	0.34^*
Male caregiver	–0.40^* (0.11)	0.67^*
Caregiver age (centered at 35 y)	-0.01 (0.01)	0.99
Caregivers’ highest educational attainment
< high school	–0.86^* (0.09)	0.42^*
High school graduate (Ref)	0.00	1.00
Some postsecondary	0.01 (0.08)	1.01
Postsecondary degree	0.20^* (0.08)	1.22^*
Income-to-LICO ratio^a (centered at 1.0)	0.29^* (0.03)	1.34^*
Marital status^a
Single, never married	–0.46^* (0.09)	0.63^*
Married, including common-law (Ref)	0.00	1.00
Divorced, separated, widowed	–0.16^* (0.07)	0.85^*
Male child	–0.11^* (0.06)	0.90^*
Child's age, y
4–6	–0.22^* (0.07)	0.80^*
7–9 (Ref)	0.00	1.00
10–11	0.02 (0.07)	1.02
Child is only child^a	–0.37^* (0.06)	0.69^*
Rate of change
Linear	–0.18^* (0.02)	0.84^*
Income-to-LICO ratio (centered at 1.0)^a ^b	–0.03^* (0.01)
Caregivers of children aged 4–6 y with ≥ 3 indicators^b	–0.14^* (0.06)
Random effects
Level 2: between person
In initial status	3.35^* (0.14)
In linear rate of change	0.06^* (0.01)

Note. Note. LICO = low-income cut-off, an indicator of low income based on family size and before-tax percentage of income spent on necessities; OR = odds ratio.

Covariate is time-varying; all other covariates are fixed at baseline values.

Term has a significant interaction with at least 1 caregiver group.

Estimates indicate values that are significantly different (P < .05) from zero.