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

Table 4 Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for obesity by categories of CTVB, NS-SECand fifths of the distribution of ward Townsend scores

	N	Base	%	OR^a	95% CI: LL	95% CI: UL
CTVB
E_H^b	122	764	16.0	1
D	127	925	13.7	0.85	0.65	1.11
C	323	1836	17.6	1.13	0.90	1.42
B	962	4518	21.3	1.43	1.16	1.76
A	616	2816	21.9	1.49	1.20	1.84
				χ² for trend = 39.4
NS-SEC
Higher managerial and professional occupations^b	128	585	21.9
Lower managerial and professional occupations	310	1666	18.6	0.80	0.63	1.01
Intermediate occupations	258	1478	17.5	0.72	0.57	0.92
Small employers and own account workers	154	734	21.0	0.95	0.73	1.24
Lower supervisory and technical occupations	256	1241	20.6	0.93	0.73	1.19
Semi-routine occupations	408	2009	20.3	0.88	0.70	1.11
Routine occupations	479	2131	22.5	1.03	0.82	1.28
Never worked and long-term unemployed	179	723	24.8	1.13	0.87	1.47
				χ² for trend = 13.5
Townsend fifth	519	2912	17.8	1
Least Deprived^b	497	2547	19.5	1.11	0.97	1.28
2	424	2354	18.0	1.01	0.88	1.17
3	448	2166	20.7	1.20	1.04	1.38
4	469	2113	22.2	1.31	1.14	1.51
Most deprived	519	2912	17.8	1
				χ² for trend = 14.6

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