Table 2.
Associations of socioeconomic variables, risk factors, and health costs with the incidence of CRC by the BYM model
| Variables | Median SIR | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|
| People over 15 years old who were unemployed | 1.17 | 0.63, 2.19 |
| Women aged 17 years or older with a university education | 0.91 | 0.77, 1.06 |
| Women head of household | 1.63 | 1.06, 2.53 |
| Households without a car | 0.88 | 0.73, 1.08 |
| Households living in a rental house | 0.82 | 0.71, 0.96 |
| Households with an income below the poverty line | 1.13 | 0.90, 1.40 |
| People without insurance coverage | 1.05 | 0.90, 1.11 |
| Households without daily fruit consumption | 1.02 | 0.92, 1.14 |
| Households without daily milk consumption | 0.71 | 0.55, 0.94 |
| Overweight people aged 15 and older | 0.95 | 0.78, 1.17 |
| Smoking households | 0.95 | 0.85, 1.07 |
| Household health expenditures | 1.34 | 1.06, 1.68 |
| Household expenditures on diagnoses | 1.01 | 0.87, 1.18 |
| Household expenditures on medicine | 1.05 | 0.94, 1.18 |
| Household expenditures on hospitals | 1.15 | 0.98, 1.35 |
| Household expenditures on medical visits | 1.12 | 0.95, 1.32 |
CRC, colorectal cancer; BYM, Besag-York-Mollie; SIR, standardized incidence ratio; CI, confidence interval.