Table 3.

Marginal coefficients of the associations between the dummy variable ‘recession’ and health status, health behaviours and risk factors for women^a

	Overall	Employment status			Education level
		Employed	Unem-ployed	pb	University	High secondary	Lower secondary or primary	Without any qualification	pc
Women
Health status
Good self-reported health	0.096***	0.104***	0.100***	0.510	0.077***	0.083***	0.121***	0.135*	0.435
	(0.0131)	(0.0142)	(0.0342)		(0.0215)	(0.0268)	(0.0209)	(0.0812)
Health behaviours and risk factors
Overweight or obesity	−0.030**	−0.038**	−0.025	0.076	−0.028	−0.001	−0.067***	−0.186**	0.107
	(0.0146)	(0.0159)	(0.0358)		(0.0240)	(0.0297)	(0.0231)	(0.0875)
Sleeping hours	0.153***	0.127***	0.161*	0.606	0.129**	0.192***	0.159***	0.187	0.933
	(0.0372)	(0.0397)	(0.0977)		(0.0631)	(0.0745)	(0.0590)	(0.2425)
Moderate or intense leisure physical activityd	0.014	0.017*	0.011	0.402	0.065***	0.046**	−0.016	−0.007	0.014
	(0.0089)	(0.0099)	(0.0209)		(0.0205)	(0.0188)	(0.0115)	(0.0334)
Daily or occasional smokers	0.044***	0.038**	0.050	0.578	0.019	0.007	0.063***	0.040	0.395
	(0.0140)	(0.0154)	(0.0348)		(0.0253)	(0.0299)	(0.0211)	(0.0715)
Alcohol last two weeksd	−0.069***	−0.050***	−0.124***	0.054	−0.055*	−0.104***	−0.043*	−0.026	0.427
	(0.0151)	(0.0167)	(0.0356)		(0.0283)	(0.0312)	(0.0224)	(0.0783)
Heavy alcohol consumptiond, e	0.004	0.005	−0.001	0.998	−0.015	0.001	0.014***	−0.002	0.012
	(0.0040)	(0.0046)	(0.0089)		(0.0096)	(0.0086)	(0.0052)	(0.0021)
Tranquilizers or sleeping pills	−0.024***	−0.037***	0.010	0.000	−0.026**	−0.012	−0.021	−0.183***	0.051
	(0.0084)	(0.0090)	(0.0215)		(0.0125)	(0.0170)	(0.0136)	(0.0596)
Vegetables (daily)	−0.024	−0.017	−0.043	0.065	−0.013	0.034	−0.030	−0.271***	0.004
	(0.0150)	(0.0166)	(0.0364)		(0.0287)	(0.0313)	(0.0222)	(0.0795)
Fruits (daily)	−0.079***	−0.071***	−0.106***	0.315	−0.058**	−0.048	−0.092***	−0.151*	0.429
	(0.0144)	(0.0159)	(0.0345)		(0.0268)	(0.0301)	(0.0216)	(0.0781)
Legumes (3 times or more /week)	0.043***	0.039**	0.057*	0.392	0.051*	0.038	0.045**	−0.105	0.314
	(0.0136)	(0.0151)	(0.0325)		(0.0256)	(0.0274)	(0.0207)	(0.0805)
Fish (3 times or more/ week)	−0.000	0.002	−0.007	0.437	0.042	−0.006	−0.013	−0.048	0.570
	(0.0149)	(0.0166)	(0.0354)		(0.0287)	(0.0307)	(0.0222)	(0.0840)
Meat (3 times or more/ week)	−0.100***	−0.097***	−0.109***	0.567	−0.093***	−0.089***	−0.104***	−0.211***	0.541
	(0.0135)	(0.0149)	(0.0328)		(0.0258)	(0.0287)	(0.0197)	(0.0808)
Cold meat (3 times or more /week)	−0.037**	−0.029*	−0.065*	0.836	−0.054*	−0.058*	−0.019	−0.099	0.558
	(0.0145)	(0.0161)	(0.0344)		(0.0276)	(0.0297)	(0.0218)	(0.0777)
Sweet food (3 times or more /week)	0.001	0.002	−0.004	0.921	0.024	−0.011	0.001	−0.039	0.806
	(0.0152)	(0.0168)	(0.0361)		(0.0289)	(0.0312)	(0.0226)	(0.0848)

Robust standard errors in parentheses

Level of significance: * p < 0.10; ** p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01

^aAll models are adjusted by age, age², marital status, region of residence (autonomous community), type of residential area (rural/urban), occupation and linear time trend. Spanish National Health Surveys 2001 to 2011/12

^bSignificance of t-test of the interaction between economic recession dummy and employment status

^cSignificance of likelihood ratio of the model with and without interaction between economic recession and education level

^dYear 2003 not available

^eAlcohol consumption has been calculated only for weekly frequency consumption