Table 3.
Social status variables | Excessive drinking | Problem drinking | Condom use | Compensated sex | Police detainment | Physical fighting |
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Upward social mobility | 0.81* (0.66–0.99) | 0.63* (0.41–0.97) | 1.45* (1.04–2.01) | 0.54** (0.34–0.86) | 0.80* (0.67–0.96) | 0.88* (0.77–0.99) |
High maternal education | 1.09 (0.84–1.41) | 0.88 (0.57–1.38) | 1.45* (1.04–2.04) | 0.96 (0.61–1.50) | 1.1 (0.86–1.41) | 1.08 (0.91–1.27) |
High paternal education | 1.12 (0.87–1.45) | 0.74 (0.42–1.28) | 0.85 (0.59–1.22) | 1.26 (0.74–2.14) | 0.82 (0.63–1.06) | 0.83* (0.70–0.98) |
High household expenditures | 1.11 (0.89–1.38) | 1.29 (0.76–2.19) | 1.13 (0.85–1.50) | 0.83 (0.53–1.31) | 0.94 (0.76–1.15) | 1.14 (0.99–1.32) |
Observations | 5189 | 1559 | 808 | 1048 | 5167 | 5189 |
**p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.
aAll models control for age, sex, dropout status, state, welfare status, and clustering at the community level.
No change in or downward social mobility = reference category for social mobility; no education through primary = reference category for maternal and paternal education; low = reference category for monthly household expenditures. Table does not include currently smokes and sexually active because there was no significant association between these risk behaviors and perceived social mobility.