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Table 4 Risk of being out of the labor force associated with chronic conditions, adjusting for sociodemographic, health and lifestyle factors, from multivariate log-Poisson regressions*

From: Chronic back problems and labor force participation in a national population survey: impact of comorbid arthritis

 

Overall

Female

Male

 

N = 62873

N = 31263

N = 31610

 

PR (95% CI)

PR (95% CI)

PR (95% CI)

Chronic condition

 None

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Back problem and arthritis

19.50 (14.90, 25.52)†

17.32 (11.63, 25.79)†

21.06 (14.80, 29.98)†

 Back problem

7.56 (5.75, 9.93)†

6.54 (4.37, 9.78)†

8.53 (5.97, 12.22)†

 Arthritis

8.26 (6.14, 11.11)†

8.37 (5.49, 12.76)†

7.49 (4.91, 11.43)†

 Other chronic condition(s)

5.72 (4.25, 7.70)†

4.34 (2.86, 6.59)†

7.13 (4.82, 10.55)†

Sex

 Male

1.00

  

 Female

0.92 (0.80, 1.05)

  

Age

 25-34

1.00

1.00

1.00

 35-44

2.57 (1.89, 3.49)†

2.22 (1.50, 3.28)†

2.98 (1.79, 4.96)†

 45-54

3.84 (2.86, 5.15)†

3.30 (2.25, 4.84)†

4.34 (2.64, 7.13)†

 55-64

6.02 (4.35, 8.33)†

4.59 (3.11, 6.78)†

7.84 (4.66, 13.17)†

Education

 Less than secondary grad

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Secondary grad

0.54 (0.45, 0.65)†

0.57 (0.44, 0.72)†

0.52 (0.40, 0.67)†

 Some post-secondary

0.84 (0.66, 1.06)

1.08 (0.80, 1.46)

0.59 (0.40, 0.87)†

 Post-secondary

0.46 (0.40, 0.53)†

0.45 (0.38, 0.54)†

0.48 (0.39, 0.60)†

BMI

 Underweight/normal

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Overweight

0.90 (0.77, 1.05)

1.02 (0.82, 1.27)

0.78 (0.62, 0.97)†

 Obese

1.08 (0.94, 1.25)

1.09 (0.90, 1.32)

1.06 (0.85, 1.31)

Smoking status

 Never

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Current

1.86 (1.59, 2.19)†

1.98 (1.62, 2.41)†

1.72 (1.31, 2.25)†

 Former

1.06 (0.91, 1.24)

1.16 (0.94, 1.44)

0.96 (0.74, 1.24)

Alcohol consumption

 Non-drinker

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Regular

0.32 (0.28, 0.38)†

0.25 (0.20, 0.31)†

0.41 (0.33, 0.50)†

 Occasional

0.65 (0.56, 0.75)†

0.55 (0.46, 0.65)†

0.82 (0.64, 1.04)

Physical activity

 Active

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Moderately active

1.05 (0.83, 1.32)

1.13 (0.80, 1.60)

0.99 (0.73, 1.34)

 Inactive

1.39 (1.14, 1.69)†

1.40 (1.02, 1.92)†

1.38 (1.05, 1.81)†

Living arrangement

 Single, with/without others

1.00

1.00

1.00

 With partner

0.61 (0.54, 0.69)†

0.74 (0.63, 0.86)†

0.49 (0.41, 0.59)†

 With children

0.49 (0.40, 0.60)†

0.52 (0.42, 0.65)†

0.44 (0.32, 0.59)†

 Other

0.65 (0.51, 0.82)†

0.59 (0.42, 0.83)†

0.66 (0.46, 0.95)†

  1. * Values shown are prevalence ratios (PR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
  2. † indicates statistical significance of p < 0.05.
  3. N = Analytic sample. Variance estimations were derived using bootstrap weights provided by Statistics Canada to account for sampling design for the CCHS.