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Table 2 Sex-adjusted univariate associations of demographic and environmental variables with mortality.

From: All-cause mortality in the Aberdeen 1921 birth cohort: Effects of socio-demographic, physical and cognitive factors

Variable

Odds ratio

95% confidence intervals

Age at wave 1

0.56 per year

0.27–1.15

Education

0.87 per year

0.75–1.01

Occupation

1.08 per group

0.98–1.20

Deprivation

1.07 per category

0.92–1.26

Living alone

0.81 alone versus cohabiting

0.49–1.35

Paternal occupation

1.03 per class

0.78–1.34

Number of rooms in house age 11

0.90 per room

0.75–1.07

Number of people resident in house age 11

1.06 per person

0.90–1.23

Crowding index age 11

1.17

0.88–1.59

Sanitation age 11

0.77 indoors versus outdoors

0.41–1.44

Number of people sharing sanitation age 11

1.03 per person

0.98–1.08

Bed sharing age 11

0.81 sharing versus non-sharing

0.43–1.54