Smoking, drinking and body weight after re-employment: does unemployment experience and compensation make a difference?

Table 2 Likelihood of Increasing Alcohol drinking between 1999 and 2001

	Frequency	Sig.	OR	95.0% C.I.
	Total = 3,330			Lower	Upper
Employment status in 2000
Continuously employed	3,204		1.00
Unemployed with compensation	48	.91	1.05	.47	2.31
Unemployed without compensation	78	.04	1.76	1.01	3.07
Alcohol use in 1999
0 drinks per day	1,100		1.00
Less than 1 drink per day	1,703	<.001	.41	.33	.50
1–2 drinks per day	394	<.001	.28	.19	.41
3 or more drinks per day	133	<.001	.23	.12	.44
Education
Less than high school	210		1.00
High school	947	.04	.66	.45	.98
More than high school	1,358	.01	.58	.40	.86
Missing	815	.22	.78	.52	1.16
Marital status
Married or partner	2,212		1.00
Single/living alone	419	.01	1.70	1.16	2.48
Widowed, sep. or divorced	699	.04	1.41	1.01	1.95
Income level*	3,330	.15	1.04	.99	1.09
# household members	3,330	.09	.93	.86	1.01
Female	652	<.001	.49	.35	.68
Age	3,330	.11	.99	.98	1.00
Race
White	2,196		1.00
African American	861	.58	.93	.73	1.19
Other	273	.79	1.05	.72	1.52
Health status
Excellent	885		1.00
Very good	1,255	.11	1.22	.95	1.57
Good	942	.21	1.19	.90	1.56
Fair/Poor	248	.94	1.02	.67	1.55

* The income variable used was the total household post-government income created for use in the Cross-National Equivalent File[38]. This represents the combined income after taxes and government transfers. A Box-Cox transformation was performed on this variable to normalize it.

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