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Empirical application, predicting adults' health status (outcome of interest) and their children's health status (proxy outcome) by alcohol use (proxy outcome).
| Have undesirable health status in adults | Have undesirable health status in children | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds Ratio | 95% confidence interval | Odds ratio | 95% confidence interval | |||
| Parents' drinking behaviour | ||||||
| Lifetime abstainers | 1.00 | Reference | 1.00 | Reference | ||
| Current light drinkers | 0.54 | 0.42 | 0.69 | 0.60 | 0.50 | 0.71 |
