Table 3A.

OLS regression results for the association between 2008 social participation and 2010 physical health for MLSFH men and women

	Women						Men
	Coef.	SE	Coef.	SE	Coef.	SE	Coef.	SE	Coef.	SE	Coef.	SE
Age	−0.19***	0.02	−0.19***	0.02	−0.19***	0.02	−0.19***	0.02	−0.19***	0.02	−0.20***	0.02
Education
No education (ref)	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
Primary	0.58	0.59	0.53	0.59	0.50	0.60	0.02	0.81	0.08	0.81	0.04	0.81
Secondary+	1.49	1.12	1.42	1.12	1.52	1.12	−0.90	1.06	−0.82	1.05	−0.86	1.06
Region of residence
Mchinji (ref)	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
Balaka	−0.40	0.63	−0.28	0.62	−0.18	0.62	−0.60	0.75	−0.63	0.75	−0.55	0.75
Rumphi	−1.19*	0.61	−0.88	0.59	−0.84	0.59	−2.78***	0.65	−2.72***	0.65	−2.72***	0.65
Marital status
Currently married (ref)	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
Widowed/divorced/separated	−2.24***	0.63	−2.15***	0.63	−2.19***	0.63	−2.10	1.50	−1.95	1.50	−2.05	1.52
Never married	−0.89	1.99	−1.30	2.04	−1.05	1.99	−2.41**	1.04	−2.47**	1.03	−2.60**	1.05
Household size	−0.02	0.09	−0.01	0.09	−0.02	0.09	0.20	0.09	0.19**	0.09	0.19**	0.09
Occupation
Agricultural- own land (ref)	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
Agricultural wage laborer	−0.65	0.93	−0.58	0.92	−0.55	0.92	−1.14	1.23	−1.15	1.23	−0.84	1.25
Salaried employment	−0.56	2.82	−0.30	2.81	−0.51	2.82	1.34	1.52	1.55	1.51	1.55	1.51
Market work/sales	−0.45	0.83	−0.40	0.83	−0.32	0.82	−0.48	1.13	−0.20	1.12	−0.01	1.13
Handicraft production	0.25	0.87	0.20	0.87	0.24	0.87	−0.76	0.93	−0.78	0.93	−0.72	0.93
Other	−0.79	0.74	−0.67	0.74	−0.72	0.74	−0.42	0.94	−0.32	0.93	−0.16	0.93
2008 physical health	0.21***	0.03	0.21***	0.03	0.21***	0.03	0.25***	0.04	0.26***	0.04	0.25***	0.04
Total monthly participation	0.06**	0.03					0.04*	0.02
Total annual participation			0.04*	0.02					0.01	0.01
Committee participation					0.16	0.21					0.15	0.18
N=	1411						917

Notes:

^***p<.01,

^**p<.05,

^*p<0.10.

Two-tailed tests.