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. 2020 May 14;20:690. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-08804-4

Table 3.

OLS estimates on having any chronic disease

Dep: Has any chronic disease (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Sample All All All All All
Adequate health literacy on CDP (=1) −0.048*** − 0.034*** −0.025** 0.018* 0.018*
(0.011) (0.011) (0.011) (0.011) (0.011)
Region (=1 urban) −0.059*** 0.018*
(0.010) (0.010)
Gender (=1 male) 0.002 −0.000
(0.010) (0.009)
Annual income (log) −0.024*** −0.010***
(0.003) (0.003)
Household size −0.027*** −0.005*
(0.003) (0.003)
Occupation (Base: 1:Public sectors)
2:Farmers 0.244*** 0.020
(0.018) (0.020)
3:Manual labourers 0.108*** 0.023
(0.019) (0.020)
4:Private sectors 0.034* 0.011
(0.019) (0.018)
5:Other 0.120*** −0.009
(0.018) (0.019)
Age group (Base: 1:Aged 15–44)
2:Aged 45–59 0.200*** 0.198***
(0.012) (0.012)
3:Aged 60–69 0.403*** 0.397***
(0.015) (0.015)
Education (Base: 1:Illiterate)
2:Elementary − 0.025 − 0.024
(0.018) (0.018)
3:Middle −0.065*** −0.060***
(0.018) (0.019)
4:High school −0.063*** −0.056***
(0.020) (0.022)
5:College or above −0.081*** −0.071***
(0.022) (0.024)
Observations 8194 8194 8194 8194 8194
R-squared 0.002 0.025 0.038 0.153 0.155

Note: The dependent variable is a binary variable indicating whether a respondent has any chronic disease (=1 if has any chronic disease, 0 otherwise). Estimates on the constant are not reported. ***p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. Standard errors in parentheses