Council tax valuation bands, socio-economic status and health outcome: a cross-sectional analysis from the Caerphilly Health and Social Needs Study

Table 3 Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for smoking by categories of CTVB, NS-SEC and fifths of the distribution of ward Townsend scores

	N	Base	%	OR^a	95% CI: LL	95% CI: UL
CTVB
E_H^b	113	760	14.9	1
D	171	919	18.6	1.38	1.06	1.79
C	380	1827	20.8	1.55	1.23	1.95
B	1346	4506	29.9	2.55	2.06	3.15
A	1049	2797	37.5	3.80	3.06	4.71
				χ² for trend = 267.6
NS-SEC
Higher managerial and professional occupations^b	101	602	16.8	1
Lower managerial and professional occupations	345	1704	20.2	1.28	1.00	1.63
Intermediate occupations	304	1524	19.9	1.21	0.94	1.56
Small employers and own account workers	209	758	27.6	2.10	1.61	2.75
Lower supervisory and technical occupations	352	1272	27.7	2.05	1.60	2.63
Semi-routine occupations	638	2073	30.8	2.25	1.78	2.85
Routine occupations	759	2204	34.4	2.85	2.26	3.60
Never worked and long-term unemployed	282	766	36.8	3.00	2.30	3.90
				χ² for trend = 213.9
Townsend fifth
Least Deprived^b	654	2905	22.5	1
2	678	2534	26.8	1.22	1.08	1.38
3	589	2342	25.1	1.14	1.00	1.30
4	686	2156	31.8	1.58	1.39	1.79
Most deprived	678	2101	32.3	1.61	1.42	1.83
				χ² for trend = 73.9

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