Table 3.

Risk difference and odds ratios for long-term sickness or disability with 95% confidence intervals between the ages 24 and 29 years for school dropouts compared with school completers within each stratum of propensity score for dropping out of high school (N=6612)

	N Medical benefits	RD (CI)	OR (CI)
Lowest propensity	79	18.1 (2.3 to 33.9)	4.76 (2.00 to 11.37)
Medium low	120	16.4 (5.8 to 27.1)	3.16 (1.78 to 5.63)
Medium propensity	142	18.7 (10.3 to 27.2)	3.43 (2.20 to 5.33)
Medium high	159	11.0 (4.7 to 17.3)	2.20 (1.50 to 3.23)
Highest propensity	239	19.5 (14.1 to 24.8)	3.11 (2.31 to 4.18)

Risk difference (RD, in %, with 95% CI) and odds ratios (OR, with 95% CI).