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. 2016 Mar 4;2:68–76. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.02.012

Table 3.

Results: maternal age at the time of birth (MAB) and height, self-rated health, overweight, and obesity.

Heighta
SRHa
Overweightb
Obeseb
b se b se b se b se
Maternal age 0.299 0.297 −0.059+ 0.035 −0.173 0.123 −0.107 0.210
Maternal age Sq −0.005 0.005 0.001+ 0.001 0.003 0.002 0.002 0.004
Gender Male 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Female −14.305 0.363 0.199 0.041 −0.232 0.147 0.796 0.273
Size of sibling group 1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
2 −0.781 0.941 −0.054 0.117 0.533 0.495 0.239 0.734
3 −1.447 0.958 0.001 0.117 0.739 0.494 0.849 0.715
4 −0.863 0.996 −0.052 0.125 0.674 0.514 0.483 0.787
5+ −1.561 1.044 0.091 0.130 0.885+ 0.524 1.068 0.771
Maternal education Basic Education −1.162 1.047 −0.016 0.143 −0.196 0.448 −0.635 0.913
Gymnasium −0.233 0.899 −0.023 0.129 −0.125 0.381 0.494 0.720
<2 Years Tertiary 0.000 0.000 0.000 . 0.000
2+ Years Tertiary 0.052 0.911 −0.076 0.133 −0.383 0.393 0.009 0.756
Paternal occupational class Unskilled −1.443 0.629 −0.016 0.071 0.217 0.258 −0.149 0.423
Skilled −1.041+ 0.580 0.087 0.068 0.409+ 0.249 −0.018 0.401
Assistant non-manual −1.400+ 0.730 0.049 0.085 0.501 0.305 0.127 0.492
Intermediate non-manual 0.000 0.000 0.000 . 0.000
Professional/Managerial −0.165 0.638 0.033 0.071 −0.102 0.299 −0.905 0.596
Self-employed 0.365 1.032 −0.124 0.125 0.129 0.438 0.077 0.699
Farmers 1.490 1.751 0.110 0.140 0.670 0.567 0.000
Unclassified/no record −2.504 1.044 −0.125 0.107 0.847 0.351 0.540 0.536
Paternal log income Log Income of Father 0.267 0.322 −0.019 0.039 −0.078 0.109 −0.117 0.161
Regular exercise No 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Yes 0.290 0.434 −0.257 0.051 0.098 0.181 −0.259 0.291
Smoking Daily −0.078 0.447 −0.076 0.051 −0.107 0.185 −0.013 0.357
Occasional 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Never 0.328 0.581 0.217 0.075 −0.045 0.255 0.533 0.425
Becoming drunk 3 times per week or more −1.986 2.057 0.360 0.258 0.066 0.843 1.567+ 0.941
1-2 times per week −0.630 0.565 0.076 0.069 −0.359 0.266 −0.340 0.482
2-3 times per month 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Once per month −0.492 0.468 −0.037 0.054 0.025 0.200 0.221 0.380
Less often −0.918+ 0.535 0.045 0.060 0.080 0.213 0.221 0.388
Never −1.291+ 0.728 0.112 0.076 0.333 0.260 1.139 0.409
Constant 177.850 5.039 2.924 0.595 1.021 2.098 −1.887 3.544
N 1236 1236 1236 1236

Note:

a

OLS.

b

Logistic regression model. Statistical significance indicators.

+

p<0.1,

p<0.05.