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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 23.
Published in final edited form as: Poblac Salud Mesoam. 2008 Jul 1;6(1):3. doi: 10.15517/psm.v6i1.4535

Table 4.

Coefficients and odds ratios (OR) of logistic regression of couples not owning a house.

Variables Male spouses or couple
Female spouses
Coeff SE OR Coeff SE OR
Consensual union 0.528 0.299 * 1.696
Married (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Family variables
Male spouse’s age (in decades) 0.059 0.151 1.061
Difference Female’s age - Male’s age (in years) −0.004 0.015 0.996
Union duration (in decades) −0.076 0.148 0.927
Only one union (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
More than one union −0.190 0.243 0.827 0.123 0.264 1.131
No children 0.805 0.497 2.237 −0.292 0.570 0.747
1 to 2 children 0.149 0.374 1.161 −0.303 0.361 * 0.739
3 to 5 children −0.406 0.339 0.666 0.226 0.331 1.254
6 or more children (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Household size (# of members) −0.039 0.050 0.962
Union before 1975 −0.453 0.266 * 0.636
Union after 1974 (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Social variables
Male’s years of schooling −0.013 0.027 0.987
Difference Female’s -Male’s years of schooling 0.014 0.026 1.014
Once a migrant to US −0.197 0.227 0.821 0.180 0.454 1.197
Never a migrant to US (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Urban 0.698 0.211 *** 2.010
Rural (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Having a toilet when child −0.260 0.222 0.771 0.224 0.224 1.251
Not having a toilet when child (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Health problems when child 0.186 0.338 1.204 −0.476 0.261 * 0.621
No health problems (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Occupational variables
Never worked before −1.088 1.139 0.337 −0.299 0.211 0.742
Work as:
 Employer −0.622 0.319 * 0.537 −0.755 0.747 0.470
 Self-employed −0.523 0.202 *** 0.593 0.623 0.254 ** 1.865
 Wage-earner (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
 Non-paid worker 0.273 1.035 1.314 0.030 0.333 1.030
Currently working 0.267 0.218 1.306 −0.302 0.222 0.739
Currently not working (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Income (thousand pesos) −0.002 0.006 0.998 −0.005 0.006 0.995
Constant −1.926 0.874 ** 0.146
F-test (30,4569) 3.14 ***

Notes:

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01