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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 5.

Coefficients and odds ratios (OR) of ordinal logistic regression of Male’s perceived financial situation (1=Excellent to 5=Poor).

Variables Male spouses or couple
Female spouses
Coeff SE OR Coeff SE OR
Consensual union 0.402 0.211 * 1.495
Married (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Family variables
Male spouse’s age (in decades) −0.186 0.124 0.831
Female spouse’s age - Male spouse’s age (in years) −0.027 0.019 0.974
Union duration (in decades) −0.014 0.084 0.986
Only one union (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
More than one union −0.058 0.217 0.943 −0.076 0.263 0.927
No children −0.119 0.469 0.888 0.503 0.490 1.654
1 to 2 children 0.076 0.294 1.079 −0.227 0.281 0.797
3 to 5 children 0.040 0.206 1.040 −0.237 0.220 0.789
6 or more children (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Household size (# of members) −0.016 0.027 0.984
Union before 1975 −0.213 0.172 0.809
Union after 1974 (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Social variables
Male spouse’s years of schooling −0.190 0.027 *** 0.827
Female spouse’s schooling-Male spouse’s schooling −0.101 0.039 *** 0.904
Once a migrant to US 0.288 0.137 ** 1.333 −0.558 0.373 0.572
Never a migrant to US (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Urban 0.069 0.218 1.072
Rural (Ref) 0.000 1.000
Having a toilet when child −0.085 0.162 0.918 −0.338 0.129 *** 0.713
Not having a toilet when child (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Health problems when child 0.281 0.181 1.325 0.526 0.181 *** 1.692
No health problems (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Occupational variables
Never worked before 0.139 0.653 1.149 −0.023 0.166 0.977
Work as:
 Employer −0.562 0.279 ** 0.570 −0.877 0.604 0.416
 Self-employed 0.045 0.125 1.046 −0.237 0.180 0.789
 Wage-earner (Ref) a/ 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
 Non-paid worker - - - −0.060 0.220 0.942
Currently working −0.475 0.154 *** 0.622 0.270 0.153 * 1.309
Currently not working (Ref) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000
Income (thousand pesos) −0.007 0.005 0.993 0.004 0.005 1.004
F-test (29,4570) 11.310 ***

Notes:

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01

a/

Variable for males excluded because it predicted perfectly one of the outcome categories