Table 2.
Poisson regression analyses of the sickness absence of employed mother and fathers, with the number of sickness days as the dependent variable. The sample consisted of primiparae women and fathers, birth cohort (2001–2005)
| n = (person-years) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coeff | SE | P value | Coeff | SE | P value | |
| Mothers, n = 546784 | Fathers, n = 608266 | |||||
| Diagnosis children | ||||||
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida | 16.95 | 7.76 | 0.029 | 7.91 | 4.68 | 0.091 |
| Down syndrome | −2.95 | 5.20 | 0.570 | 8.80 | 7.08 | 0.214 |
| Without special needs | reference | reference | ||||
| Time | ||||||
| 2 years prior to the birth | −29.53 | 0.42 | 0.000 | −0.95 | 0.20 | 0.000 |
| Birth year | 20.09 | 0.21 | 0.000 | 0.56 | 0.17 | 0.001 |
| 1 year after the birth | −18.57 | 0.34 | 0.000 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 0.110 |
| 2 years after the birth | 4.97 | 0.27 | 0.000 | 1.03 | 0.19 | 0.000 |
| 3 years after the birth | 4.26 | 0.28 | 0.000 | 1.34 | 0.19 | 0.000 |
| 4 years after the birth | −0.85 | 0.31 | 0.006 | 1.99 | 0.20 | 0.000 |
| 1 year prior to the birth | reference | reference | ||||
| Interactions | ||||||
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida × 2 years prior to the birth | 6.83 | 11.27 | 0.544 | −2.64 | 5.40 | 0.624 |
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida × year of the birth | −1.19 | 5.91 | 0.840 | 5.87 | 3.40 | 0.084 |
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida × 1 year after the birth | 35.42 | 7.12 | 0.000 | 4.72 | 3.66 | 0.197 |
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida × 2 years after the birth | 9.45 | 7.35 | 0.199 | 1.81 | 4.77 | 0.703 |
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida × 3 years after the birth | 3.52 | 7.40 | 0.634 | 0.63 | 4.18 | 0.880 |
| Cerebral palsy/spina bifida × 4 years after the birth | 6.23 | 7.60 | 0.412 | 4.88 | 3.70 | 0.187 |
| Down syndrome × 2 years prior to the birth | −4.83 | 11.55 | 0.676 | 4.47 | 5.37 | 0.406 |
| Down syndrome × year of the birth | 12.65 | 6.43 | 0.049 | 3.94 | 4.37 | 0.367 |
| Down syndrome × 1 year after the birth | 26.16 | 7.79 | 0.001 | −5.56 | 5.01 | 0.267 |
| Down syndrome × 2 years after the birth | 11.70 | 8.09 | 0.148 | −11.74 | 8.24 | 0.154 |
| Down syndrome × 3 years after the birth | 9.36 | 7.83 | 0.232 | −5.61 | 6.43 | 0.383 |
| Down syndrome × 4 years after the birth | 16.11 | 8.56 | 0.060 | −7.02 | 8.48 | 0.408 |
| Pseudu R2 | 0.083 | 0.064 | ||||
Note: Age, age squared, immigrant background, length of residency, marital status, younger children in the household, birth cohort, place of residency, number of days employed and the unemployment rate are included in the models