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. 2020 Sep 12;191:110177. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110177

Table 2.

- Association between air pollutants, demographic and socioeconomic variables and daily incident positive cases. Basic Health Areas (ABS) of Catalonia, February 25 - May 16, 2020.

RR (95% credibility interval) Prob(|log(RR)|)>0
Variables
PM10 1.030 (0.986–1.074) 0.907
NO2 1.027 (1.008–1.047) 0.997
Average income per person [Quartile 4]
Quartile 1 1.016 (0.694–1.485) 0.530
Quartile 2 1.264 (0.921–1.735) 0.926
Quartile 3 1.412 (1.062–1.876) 0.991
Unemployment rate [Quartile 1]
Quartile 2 1.005 (0.765–1.321) 0.514
Quartile 3 0.654 (0.481–0.889) 0.997
Quartile 4 0.642 (0.439–0.939) 0.989
Population density [Quartile 1]
Quartile 2 1.393 (1.013–1.914) 0.979
Quartile 3 1.603 (1.154–2.226) 0.998
Quartile 4 1.923 (1.297–2.850) 0.999
Population aged 65 or over 1.019 (0.986–1.053) 0.902
Foreigners 0.987 (0.967–1.006) 0.911
Poor housing 1.025 (0.995–1.056) 0.998
Single person households 0.969 (0.948–0.991) 0.997

NOTES.

Adjusted by the dummy variable to control the outlier, by the number of tests per day, by individual heterogeneity (at the Basic Health Area level), by spatial dependence and by temporal dependence.

Reference category in square brackets.

Prob(abs(log(RR))>0) higher than 0.95. Prob(abs(log(RR))>0) higher than 0.90.