Table 4.

Factors associated with suicidal thoughts: bivariate analyses (presented for the sample with complete data on all variables; n = 251)

	Suicidal thoughts				P valuea	Odds ratio (95% CI)
	Yes		No
Characteristic	n	%	n	%
Age in years
18–25b	10	14.5	59	85.5	0.363	—
26–39	8	9.1	80	90.9		1.7 (0.6 to 4.5)
40–49	15	16.0	79	84.0		0.9 (0.4 to 2.1)
Sex
Male	9	10.5	77	89.5	0.364	0.7 (0.3 to 1.5)
Femaleb	24	14.5	141	85.5		—
Highest level of education
Minimalb	8	11.4	62	88.6	0.810	—
Low	18	14.5	106	85.5		0.7 (0.3 to 1.8)
High	7	12.3	50	87.7		0.9 (0.3 to 2.7)
Being single
Yes	19	24.7	58	75.3	<0.001	3.7 (1.8 to 7.9)
Nob	14	8.0	160	92.0		—
Able to make ends meet
Easily	6	5.5	103	94.5	0.002	0.2 (0.1 to 0.6)
With difficultyb	27	19.0	115	81.0		—
Social contacts
Satisfying	18	8.4	196	91.6	<0.001	0.1 (0.1 to 0.3)
Not satisfyingb	15	40.5	22	59.5		—
Depressive complaints
Average or below average	7	3.7	183	96.3	<0.001	0.0 (0.0 to 0.1)
Above averageb	26	42.6	35	57.4		—
Self-rated health
Goodb	10	6.8	138	93.2	0.001	—
Neutral	16	20.0	64	80.0		0.3 (0.1 to 0.7)
Bad	7	30.4	16	69.6		0.2 (0.0 to 0.5)
Confronted with employment loss in the past year (the responder or someone close)
No	21	11.0	170	89.0	0.072	0.5 (0.2 to 1.1)
Yesb	12	20.0	48	80.0		—
Employment loss in the past year (the responder)
No	23	10.4	198	89.6	<0.001	0.2 (0.1 to 0.5)
Yesb	10	33.3	20	66.7		—
Job status
No job insecurityb	7	6.1	108	93.9	0.009	—
Job insecurity	6	28.6	15	71.4		0.2 (0.0 to 0.5)
No paid occupation, available for labour market (unemployed)	6	15.0	34	85.0		0.4 (0.1 to 1.2)
No paid occupation, currently not available for labour market (housewife, on benefits, disability, etc)	14	18.7	61	81.3		0.3 (0.1 to 0.7)

^aP-value reached from χ² test.

^bReference category.