Table 2.

Sociodemographic correlates of regular diabetes health screening

Independent variables	Overall				Below 40 years				40 years and above
	OR	P value	95% CI		OR	P value	95% CI		OR	P value	95% CI
			Lower	Upper			Lower	Upper			Lower	Upper
Age groups
18 to 34 (Ref)
35–49	3.24	0.000	2.23	4.71	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
50–64	7.01	0.000	4.54	10.80	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
65 and above	16.91	0.000	9.75	29.35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gender
Female (Ref)
Male	0.88	0.374	0.67	1.16	0.90	0.656	0.56	1.44	1.20	0.308	0.85	1.70
Ethnicity
Chinese (Ref)
Malay	1.35	0.024	1.04	1.76	1.39	0.147	0.89	2.17	1.16	0.349	0.85	1.58
Indian	1.72	0.000	1.33	2.22	2.12	0.000	1.40	3.20	1.53	0.010	1.10	2.11
Others	1.40	0.113	0.92	2.14	1.30	0.473	0.64	2.65	1.55	0.115	0.90	2.67
Education
Degree and above (Ref)
Primary and below	0.77	0.356	0.44	1.35	0.44	0.190	0.13	1.49	1.60	0.135	0.86	2.98
Secondary	0.57	0.020	0.35	0.91	0.36	0.025	0.15	0.88	1.08	0.798	0.59	1.97
Pre-U/Junior college	0.48	0.073	0.22	1.07	0.59	0.461	0.14	2.41	0.87	0.763	0.34	2.20
Vocational institute/ITEa	0.52	0.023	0.29	0.91	0.36	0.015	0.16	0.82	1.14	0.783	0.45	2.87
Diploma	0.70	0.106	0.45	1.08	0.73	0.317	0.39	1.36	0.86	0.629	0.46	1.60
Employment
Employed (Ref)
Economically inactive	1.51	0.050	1.00	2.28	0.79	0.621	0.31	2.02	2.55	0.000	1.61	4.03
Unemployed	1.04	0.923	0.50	2.15	0.91	0.848	0.33	2.48	1.08	0.868	0.42	2.77
Monthly personal Income (in Singapore dollars)
10,000 and above (Ref)
No income	0.33	0.013	0.14	0.79	0.10	0.017	0.01	0.66	0.40	0.092	0.14	1.16
Below 2,000	0.44	0.026	0.21	0.91	0.16	0.028	0.03	0.82	0.49	0.087	0.22	1.11
2000 to 3,999	0.94	0.855	0.48	1.83	0.33	0.147	0.07	1.48	0.83	0.643	0.38	1.81
4000 to 5,999	0.91	0.774	0.46	1.78	0.46	0.311	0.10	2.06	0.71	0.390	0.32	1.56
6000 to 9999	1.81	0.112	0.87	3.77	0.70	0.656	0.15	3.33	1.79	0.178	0.77	4.20

^aInstitute of Technical Education