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

Table 6 Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for limiting long-term illness 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	286	755	37.9	1
D	444	920	48.3	1.36	1.10	1.67
C	883	1828	48.3	1.48	1.23	1.78
B	2467	4477	55.1	1.99	1.68	2.35
A	1770	2787	63.5	2.63	2.20	3.15
				χ² for trend = 205.6
NS-SEC
Higher managerial and professional occupations^b	212	601	35.3
Lower managerial and professional occupations	738	1700	43.4	1.46	1.19	1.80
Intermediate occupations	660	1519	43.4	1.61	1.30	2.00
Small employers and own account workers	415	755	55.0	1.92	1.52	2.43
Lower supervisory and technical occupations	729	1265	57.6	2.32	1.87	2.88
Semi-routine occupations	1092	2069	52.8	2.28	1.86	2.80
Routine occupations	1305	2197	59.4	2.53	2.07	3.10
Never worked and long-term unemployed	552	764	72.3	6.22	4.84	8.00
				χ² for trend = 294.4
Townsend fifth	1530	2878	53.2	1
Least Deprived^b	1321	2531	52.2	1.06	0.95	1.19
2	1233	2337	52.8	1.04	0.92	1.17
3	1225	2145	57.1	1.30	1.15	1.47
4	1214	2100	57.8	1.35	1.19	1.53
Most deprived	1530	2878	53.2	1
				χ² for trend = 17.9

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