Table 4:

Magnitudes of the effects of socioeconomic variables on life expectancies, calculated based on the coefficients of the multivariate regressions^a

Change in variable	Improvement in life expectancy (days)
	Total	Male	Female
1% reduction in poverty	17.9	15.9	20.6
MYR 100 (≈ USD 23.2) increase in household income.b	16.3	17.0	16.2
1% reduction in unemployment	72.0	-	89.5

MYR= Malaysian Ringgit (USD 1 ≈ MYR 4.3, as in September 2017)

Notes:

^aWe calculated the magnitudes [M] based on the formula: M = D * β * 365; where D is the unit change in the independent variable, β is the respective coefficient of the independent variable (As presented in Table 3), and 365 is the number of days of a single year. We used days instead of years for clearer comparisons of the magnitudes across variables and genders.

^bThe initial unit of measurement for income in the regressions (Table 3) is thousand; however, for better illustration of the magnitudes, we used MYR 100 change in income in this table [D=0.1]