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. 2015 Jul 22;15:82. doi: 10.1186/s12903-015-0066-y

Table 3.

Logistic regressions of ECC on socioeconomic variables

Socioeconomic background Adjusted estimated prevalence Likelihood ratio test p-value Effect size for socioeconomic variable of interest1 Effect size for the complete model1
Parents’ level of education < .001 3.14 % 10.70 %
Incomplete compulsory education 0.61a
Compulsory education 0.25b
Apprenticeship (vocational school) 0.23b
Secondary education (high school diploma) 0.25b
Tertiary education (university) 0.13c
Parents’ professional level < .001 3.74 % 11.26 %
Unemployed 0.42a
Lower occupations 0.23b
Intermediate occupations 0.12c
Higher occupations 0.10c
Self-employed 0.17b,c
Family income < .001 3.35 % 10.94 %
Low (< CHF 4,000) 0.36a
Medium (CHF 4,000 to CHF 6,000) 0.17b
High (> CHF 6,000) 0.10b
Other 0.15b
Did not want to answer 0.18b
Parents’ literacy < .001 3.45 % 11.00 %
Problems 0.37a
No problems 0.17b
Parents’ immigration status < .001 7.74 % 14.96 %
Developing countries (HDI < 0.8) 0.40a
Developed countries (HDI > 0.8) and Swiss citizens 0.13b

a, b, cFor significant pairwise comparisons, a same subscript letter within a column denotes that proportions did not differ; two different subscript letters denote that proportions differed at the 0.05 level

1Effect size measured with the McFadden pseudo R-square. The whole model included all demographics and covariates