Table 5.

Relative odds (95% CI) of reporting chronic strains and difficulties per ten percentage point reduction in own-group density^a

Chronic strains and difficulties	n	Total minority ethnic sample (n = 3444)	White British (n = 837)	Irish (n = 733)	Black Caribbean (n = 694)	Bangladeshi (n = 650)	Indian (n = 643)	Pakistani (n = 724)
Problems with relatives	1952
OR (95% CI)		1.06 (1.02–1.11)	0.88 (0.78–0.99)	3.48 (1.33–9.07)	0.86 (0.63–1.17)	1.43 (1.18–1.74)	1.14 (1.02–1.27)	1.03 (0.89–1.19)
P (trend)		0.005	0.03	0.02	0.34	<0.001	0.02	0.69
Problems with money for food or clothing	1605
OR (95% CI)		1.01 (0.97–1.06)	0.95 (0.84–1.07)	2.77 (0.87–8.85)	1.17 (0.83–1.63)	1.07 (0.95–1.20)	0.99 (0.82–1.20)	0.97 (0.83–1.12)
P (trend)		0.68	0.38	0.08	0.35	0.29	0.93	0.68
Difficulties with paying bills	1265
OR (95% CI)		1.01 (0.96–1.06)	0.94 (0.81–1.09)	3.01 (0.65–14.0)	1.02 (0.76–1.36)	0.99 (0.84–1.17)	1.14 (0.95–1.38)	0.94 (0.82–1.09)
P (trend)		0.67	0.39	0.15	0.91	0.94	0.17	0.41
Difficulties with housing	1150
OR (95% CI)		0.93 (0.88–0.99)	0.93 (0.79–1.09)	0.69 (0.16–2.97)	0.79 (0.56–1.12)	0.88 (0.73–1.05)	1.06 (0.88–1.27)	0.99 (0.83–1.19)
P (trend)		0.01	0.35	0.62	0.19	0.17	0.54	0.95
Neighbourhood difficulties	940
OR (95% CI)		1.00 (0.94–1.06)	1.14 (1.01–1.29)	1.61 (0.46–5.59)	0.84 (0.55–1.29)	0.84 (0.68–1.04)	1.23 (0.98–1.53)	1.02 (0.87–1.20)
P (trend)		1.00	0.04	0.45	0.43	0.12	0.08	0.77
Report one or more chronic strains	3228
OR (95% CI)		1.01 (0.96–1.06)	0.99 (0.87–1.13)	3.98 (1.26–12.57)	0.93 (0.61–1.41)	1.15 (0.83–1.58)	1.12 (0.98–1.29)	0.93 (0.79–1.11)
P (trend)		0.77	0.94	0.02	0.73	0.37	0.12	0.43

^a.All models adjusted for area-level deprivation, gender, social class, age, marital status, education. Totals are unweighted.