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. 2022 Oct 20;19(20):13626. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013626

Table 1.

The proportion of households in extreme poverty by socioeconomic status (SES), association between being in an extreme poverty household and socioeconomic status, and effect of each SES factor as illustrated by the PAF and different pseudo-R-squared values.

Category Other Wealth Index Quintiles (0) The Lowest Wealth Index Quintile (1) Chi2 (p-Value) Univariate Multivariate Population Attributable Fraction: PAF Different Pseudo R2
No. (Column%) No. (Column%) No. (Column%) OR (95%CI) p Value AOR (95%CI) p Value
Poverty status (n = 35,393)
Poorest: 10,054 (28.40%)
Poor: 7953 (22.47%)
Middle: 6861 (19.39%)
Rich: 5847 (16.52%)
Richest: 4678 (13.22%)
Residential area (n = 35,393)
Urban (municipal): 14,146 (39.97%) 11,305 (44.62%) 2841 (28.26%) 802.70
(<0.001) *
Reference Reference 0.0026
Rural (non-municipal): 21,247 (60.03%) 14,034 (55.38%) 7213 (71.74%) 2.04 (1.94, 2.15) <0.001 * 1.38 (1.30, 1.46) <0.001 * 0.1960
Residential region (n = 35,391) <0.001 * <0.001 *
Bangkok (a): 3436 (9.71%) 3014 (11.89%) 422 (4.20%) 892.99
(<0.001) *
all are distinct **
Reference Reference 0.0280
Central (b): 8768 (24.77%) 6647 (26.24%) 2121 (21.10%) 2.27 (2.03, 2.55) <0.001 * 1.49 (1.32, 1.69) <0.001 * 0.3862
Northern (c): 5452 (15.4%) 3860 (15.23%) 1592 (15.83%) 2.94 (2.61, 3.31) <0.001 * 1.28 (1.12, 1.46) <0.001 *
Northeastern (d): 10,734 (30.33%) 6280 (24.78%) 4454 (44.30%) 5.06 (4.54, 5.64) <0.001 * 3.11 (2.75, 3.52) <0.001 *
Southern (e): 7003 (19.79%) 5538 (21.86%) 1465 (14.57%) 1.88 (1.68, 2.12) <0.001 * 0.82 (0.71, 0.94) 0.005 *
Head of household language (n = 35,393)
Thai: 32,018 (90.46%) 23,627 (93.24%) 8391 (83.46%) 798.80
(<0.001) *
Reference Reference 0.0097
Non-Thai: 3375 (9.54%) 1712 (6.76%) 1663 (16.54%) 2.73 (2.54, 2.93) <0.001 * 2.90 (2.61, 3.22) <0.001 * 0.1081
Head of household religion (n = 35,393) <0.001 * <0.001 *
Buddhism (a): 31,735 (89.67%) 22,836 (90.13%) 8899 (88.51%) 151.02
(<0.001) *
a and b differ from d **
Reference Reference 0.0007
Islam (b): 3296 (9.31%) 2345 (9.26%) 951 (9.46%) 1.04 (0.96, 1.12) 0.324 1.13 (0.99, 1.29) 0.062 0.0225
Christianity (c): 336 (0.95%) 147 (0.58%) 189 (1.88%) 3.29 (2.65, 4.09) <0.001 * 1.76 (1.36, 2.28) <0.001 *
Others (d): 9 (0.03%) 6 (0.02%) 3 (0.03%) 1.28 (0.32, 5.13) 0.725 2.38 (0.97, 5.86) 0.058
No religion (e): 15 (0.04%) 3 (0.01%) 12 (0.12%) 10.2 (2.89, 36.3) <0.001 * 5.64 (1.40, 22.61) 0.015 *
Head of household education (n = 35,367) <0.001 * <0.001 *
Kindergarten or none (a): 2254 (6.36%) 883 (3.48%) 1371 (13.65%) 3600.00
(<0.001) *
all are distinct **
Reference 0.1024 0.0778
Primary (b): 20,950 (59.24%) 13,670 (53.98%) 7280 (72.51%) 0.34 (0.31, 0.37) <0.001 * 0.38 (0.34, 0.42) <0.001 * Reference
Lower Secondary (c): 3540 (10.01%) 2822 (11.14%) 718 (7.15%) 0.16 (0.14, 0.18) <0.001 * 0.18 (0.16, 0.21) <0.001 *
Upper Secondary (d): 4073 (11.52%) 3540 (13.98%) 533 (5.31%) 0.09 (0.08, 0.10) <0.001 * 0.11 (0.09, 0.12) <0.001 *
Higher (e): 4550 (12.87%) 4411 (17.42%) 139 (1.38%) 0.02 (0.01, 0.02) <0.001 * 0.02 (0.02, 0.03) <0.001 *
Head of household sex (n = 35,392)
Male: 20,695 (58.47%) 14,962 (59.05%) 5733 (57.02%) 12.19
(<0.001) *
Reference 0.0648 0.0005
Female: 14,697 (41.53%) 10,376 (40.95%) 4321 (42.98%) 1.08 (1.03, 1.13) <0.001 * 0.89 (0.84, 0.94) <0.001 * Reference

Different pseudo R2: comparison of the full model (pseudo R2 = 0.1871) and the full model without an interesting factor; the full model adjusted for the residential area and region, HOH language, HOH religion, HOH education, HOH sex, number of household members, and number of children and adolescents in the household; * statistically significant at alpha = 0.05; ** statistically significant at Bonferroni correction alpha = 0.0005.