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Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2011 Oct 11;24(1):113–140. doi: 10.1177/0898264311423703

Table 3.

Results from a four-variable SUR model

		Husbands MMSE estimates	se	χ²(df)		CESD estimates	se	χ²(df)		Wives MMSE estimates	se	χ²(df)		CESD estimates	se	χ²(df)
Actor effects
	CESD	−0.022	0.021			0.321	0.0230		^***	−0.066	0.0200		^***	0.381	0.0298		^***
	MMSE	0.388	0.032	^***		−0.035	0.0369			0.435	0.0282		^***	−0.085	0.0352		^*
	hypertension	−0.109	0.184			0.207	0.218			0.125	0.158			−0.330	0.224
	Diabetes	−0.243	0.230			0.825	0.277		^**	0.010	0.255			0.283	0.365
	Cancer	−0.180	0.415			0.688	0.650			−0.356	0.308			0.795	0.581
	heart problem	0.030	0.358			0.640	0.452			−0.692	0.387		^*	−0.115	0.521
	Stroke	−1.624	0.626		^**	1.329	0.576		^*	0.127	0.613			0.099	0.754
	adl binary	−1.318	0.720			1.276	0.690			−0.237	0.792			0.483	0.994
	age (df=2)			18.22	^***			0.83				6.13	^*			4.08
	age	5.003	1.480		^**	−1.540	2.036			3.111	1.623			−1.782	2.538
	age²	−0.452	0.123		^***	0.135	0.164			−0.292	0.140		^*	0.207	0.219
	education (years)	0.093	0.024		^***	−0.079	0.032		^*	0.104	0.027		^***	−0.038	0.034
	working	0.112	0.132			−0.660	0.235		^**	0.196	0.132			−0.602	0.201		^**
	close friend	0.256	0.334			−0.344	0.411			0.026	0.360			0.131	0.448
	social activity	0.126	0.196			−0.344	0.269			0.471	0.181		^**	−0.796	0.265		^**

Spouse effects
	CESD	−0.025	0.022			0.195	0.0284		^***	0.028	0.0202			0.098	0.0310		^**
	MMSE	0.101	0.027		^***	0.007	0.0324			0.069	0.0281		^*	0.055	0.0391
	hypertension	0.018	0.168			−0.103	0.222			0.125	0.152			−0.330	0.225
	diabetes	0.453	0.231		^*	0.543	0.370			0.010	0.188			0.283	0.263
	cancer	−0.873	0.427		^*	0.358	0.609			−0.356	0.421			0.795	0.627
	heart problem	−0.192	0.394			−0.963	0.429		^*	−0.692	0.337		^*	−0.115	0.452
	stroke	−0.415	0.514			−0.089	0.672			0.127	0.417			0.099	0.578
	adl binary	1.333	0.770			−1.299	0.868			−0.237	0.574			0.483	0.665
	age (df=2)			1.90				0.08				3.49				1.73
	age	−2.288	1.663			0.581	2.258			1.072	1.461			−0.972	2.267
	age²	0.200	0.145			−0.045	0.190			−0.112	0.121			0.046	0.186
	education (years)	0.019	0.027			−0.030	0.037			0.044	0.023			−0.070	0.034		^*
	working	−0.059	0.132			−0.339	0.204			−0.160	0.166			−0.306	0.201
	close friend	0.000	0.327			0.319	0.474			0.117	0.329			0.164	0.400
	social activity	0.292	0.187			−0.472	0.271			0.023	0.179			−0.214	0.285

family effects
α	number of children	−0.003	0.070			−0.097	0.096			−0.128	0.069			0.056	0.091
	Income (df=3)			2.82				1.57				1.99				1.79
	low income	−0.067	0.210			−0.179	0.255			−0.039	0.201			0.174	0.254
	high income	0.044	0.149			−0.064	0.222			−0.128	0.151			−0.177	0.217
	missing income	−0.627	0.434			0.651	0.766			−0.602	0.460			0.272	0.768

_constant		4.818	3.139			8.722	4.217		^*	1.014	3.011			13.748	4.123		^***
R-square		0.433				0.273				0.528				0.302
N		2684				2684				2684				2684

χ²(df): chi-squared test statistic for the association of the categorical variable (with the degrees of freedom (df) of the test listed in the left column) with the outcome

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