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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Oct 12;69(12):1845–1853. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.004

Table 5.

Analysis of factors predicting residential migration and quintile change in deprivation from cycle 2 to cycle 5, including psychological health in cycle 2 as a predictor of migration: relative risk ratios (and confidence intervals shown in parentheses).

Individual Predictor Variables Model 7 Quintile Change for Material Deprivation Model 8 Quintile Change for Social Deprivation

Version A Including Health Variable Only rrr of deterioration vs. no change rrr of amelioration vs. no change rrr of deterioration vs. no change rrr of amelioration vs. no change
Psychological status in cycle 2 (reference group is not distressed) Existing Distress 1.82 (1.17 – 2.83) 1.36 (0.85 – 2.19) 1.79 (1.14– 2.82) 1.15 (0.66 – 1.99)

Version B Including Health Variable and Other Predictors

Sex (reference group is males) Females 1.09 (0.84 – 1.41) 0.98 (0.72 – 1.78) 0.96 (0.75 – 1.22) 0.76 (0.60 – 0.96)

Age Cohort (by age in 1996) (reference group is 15–24) 25–34 0.68 (0.47 – 0.98) 0.76 (0.54 – 1.07) 0.44 (030 – 0.64) 1.24 (0.85 – 1.79)
35–44 0.32 (0.22 – 0.47) 0.40 (0.29 – 0.54) 0.21 (0.14 – 0.31) 0.54 (0.38 – 0.76)
45–54 0.22 (0.14 – 0.33) 0.26 (0.18 – 0.39) 0.19 (0.13 – 0.28) 0.35 (0.23 – 0.53)

Income group (reference group is lowest income) Middle 0.55 (0.36 – 0.85) 0.79 (0.53 – 1.17) 0.96 (0.62 – 1.49) 0.96 (0.61 – 1.50)
Upper Middle 0.49 (0.32 – 0.74) 0.83 (0.57 – 1.21) 1.04 (0.68 – 1.58) 0.95 (0.61 – 1.49)
Highest 0.43 (0.25 – 0.74) 1.35 (0.85 – 2.14) 0.95 (0.55 – 1.66) 1.00 (0.59 – 1.71)

Educational Level (reference group is < secondary) Secondary graduation 1.30 (0.77 – 2.21) 0.90 (0.57 – 1.42) 1.26 (0.80 – 1.99) 1.71 (1.00 – 2.90)
Some Post Secondary 1.23 (0.78 – 1.96) 1.09 (0.73 – 1.64) 1.13 (0.74 – 1.71) 1.50 (0.94 – 2.42)
Post-Secondary graduate 1.33 (0.85 – 2.08) 1.35 (0.91 – 1.99) 1.28 (0.82 – 1.99) 1.82 (1.16 – 2.88)

Household Composition (reference groups is living with partner) Single Parent with Dependent Children 1.49 (1.00 – 2.23) 2.01 (1.49 – 2.71) 1.98 (1.33 – 2.93) 1.31 (0.85 – 2.02)
Living alone/unattached 0.98 (0.65 – 1.49) 1.73 (1.21 – 2.48) 1.70 (1.17 – 2.47) 1.48 (0.97 – 2.27)

Psychological Status in cycle 2 (reference group is not distressed) Existing Distress 1.49 (0.95 – 2.32) 1.13 (0.72 – 1.78) 1.62 (0.98 – 2.68) 1.13 (0.64 – 1.98)