Table 2.
Age-adjusted, sex-adjusted and sex-stratified associations of SEP measures with a respondent report of attempted suicide in the past year
| Overall (age-adjusted/sex-adjusted) |
Sex-stratified OR* (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95% CI) | p Value | Female | Male | p value for interaction† | |
| Household measures | |||||
| Asset score | |||||
| High | 1 | <0.001‡ | 1 | 1 | 0.22 |
| Middle | 1.85 (1.49 to 2.29) | 1.75 (1.33 to 2.34) | 1.96 (1.41 to 2.72) | ||
| Low | 3.21 (2.36 to 4.37) | 2.44 (1.56 to 3.81) | 4.30 (2.80 to 6.57) | ||
| Highest occupation in household§ | |||||
| Government worker/graduate foreign employed | 0.62 (0.41 to 0.93) | <0.001§ | 0.51 (0.28 to 0.94) | 0.76 (0.44 to 1.32) | – |
| Farmer | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Security forces | 1.03 (0.72 to 1.47) | 1.60 (1.06 to 2.42) | 0.40 (0.18 to 0.87) | ||
| Businessmen | 0.70 (0.36 to 1.33) | 0.90 (0.41 to 1.97) | 0.46 (0.14 to 1.44) | ||
| Self-employed | 1.28 (0.94 to 1.74) | 1.13 (0.73 to 1.74) | 1.46 (0.95 to 2.24) | ||
| Non-graduate foreign employed | 1.08 (0.59 to 1.96) | 1.08 (0.49 to 2.36) | 1.11 (0.45 to 2.74) | ||
| Salaried employee | 1.11 (0.75 to 1.65) | 1.38 (0.85 to 2.23) | 0.78 (0.39 to 1.55) | ||
| Daily wage labourer | 2.25 (1.61 to 3.16) | 1.79 (1.09 to 2.94) | 2.76 (1.76 to 4.31) | ||
| Unemployed/retired | 1.41 (0.65 to 3.06) | 1.15 (0.36 to 3.70) | 1.81 (0.65 to 5.00) | ||
| Other¶ | 2.42 (0.97 to 6.04) | 3.98 (1.55 to 10.23) | – | ||
| Young female head of household (≤40 years) | 1.60 (0.86 to 2.97) | 0.14 | 2.30 (1.24 to 4.23) | – | – |
| Household with non-graduate foreign employed | 0.87 (0.62 to 1.23) | 0.43 | 0.88 (0.56 to 1.39) | 0.86 (0.51 to 1.47) | 0.99 |
| Individual measures | |||||
| Individual occupation§ | |||||
| Government worker/graduate foreign employed | 0.25 (0.09 to 0.69) | <0.001‡ | – | 0.49 (0.18 to 1.37) | – |
| Farmer | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Security forces | 0.23 (0.10 to 0.51) | – | 0.26 (0.12 to 0.58) | ||
| Businessmen | 0.25 (0.06 to 1.02) | – | 0.36 (0.09 to 1.48) | ||
| Self-employed | 1.18 (0.76 to 1.82) | 1.78 (0.79 to 4.02) | 1.08 (0.64 to 1.81) | ||
| Non-graduate foreign employed | 0.19 (0.06 to 0.63) | 0.35 (0.10 to 1.28) | – | ||
| Salaried employee | 0.85 (0.57 to 1.28) | 1.20 (0.58 to 2.49) | 0.75 (0.44 to 1.29) | ||
| Daily wage labourer | 1.82 (1.22 to 2.72) | 2.17 (0.83 to 5.65) | 1.90 (1.22 to 2.95) | ||
| Unemployed/retired | 1.42 (0.95 to 2.12) | 1.60 (0.77 to 3.29) | 1.76 (1.05 to 2.93) | ||
| House worker/other | 0.78 (0.53 to 1.14) | 1.04 (0.55 to 1.98) | 0.57 (0.08 to 4.13) | ||
| Student | 0.23 (0.15 to 0.36) | 0.35 (0.16 to 0.73) | 0.14 (0.06 to 0.32) | ||
| Individual education | |||||
| University/A-level | 1 | <0.001‡ | 1 | 1 | <0.001 |
| O-level | 1.74 (1.29 to 2.35) | 1.70 (1.18 to 2.45) | 1.96 (1.16 to 3.30) | ||
| Primary | 2.72 (1.81 to 4.08) | 2.57 (1.47 to 4.47) | 3.11 (1.66 to 5.84) | ||
| Not attended | 4.63 (2.54 to 8.41) | 3.10 (1.18 to 8.16) | 8.35 (3.72 to 18.71) | ||
No p value for interaction presented when it was not possible to calculate interaction parameters due to limited data points.
*Estimated ORs adjusted for age.
†This is an interaction test with sex and does not adjust for age in the models. Cells with no data (–) are due to no strata-specific observations being present.
‡Likelihood ratio test comparing model with and without an SEP variable. The p value indicates whether there is any evidence that the suicide attempt rate varies across the groups.
§Presented according to ranking.
¶Made up of house workers, students and other occupations.
SEP, socioeconomic position.