The importance of age, sex and place in understanding socioeconomic inequalities in allostatic load: Evidence from the Scottish Health Survey (2008–2011)

Table 5 Educational disparities in allostatic load (using quartiles), stratified by sex, age groups, urban/rural and geographic location

Covariate	Beta (Lower* vs Higher** SEP)	95 % Confidence Intervals	P-value
Overall Effect (Unadjusted)	−0.959	−1.179, −0.739	<0.001
SEX
Male	−1.085	−1.443, −0.726	<0.001
Female	−0.863	−1.119, −0.608	<0.001
AGE
16-24	−0.281	−0.955, 0.393	0.410
25-34	−0.243	−0.782, 0.296	0.374
35-44	−0.698	−1.193, −0.204	0.006
45-54	−0.806	−1.262, −0.350	0.001
55-64	−0.559	−1.975, −0.144	0.008
65-74	−0.653	−1.188, −0.119	0.017
75+	−0.831	−1.556, −0.106	0.025
Urban/Rural
Primary City (pop > 125,000)	−1.019	−1.430, −0.607	<0.001
Urban (pop > 10,000)	−0.889	−1.272, −0.506	<0.001
Small Accessible town (pop > 3,000)	−0.309	−0.986, 0.368	0.368
Small Remote town (pop > 3,000)	−0.439	−1.328, 0.449	0.334
Accessible Rural	−1.467	−1.921, −0.012	<0.001
Remote Rural	−0.686	−1.478, 0.117	0.093
Location
Ayrshire & Arran	−1.049	−1.773, −0.325	0.005
Borders, Dumfries & Galloway	−1.013	−1.829, 0.198	0.016
Fife	−0.875	−1.613, 0.137	0.021
Forth Valley	−0.891	−1.782, 0.001	0.050
Grampian	−0.847	−1.542, −0.152	0.017
Greater Glasgow & Clyde	−0.829	−1.389, −0.269	0.004
Highland & Islands	−0.653	−1.368, 0.062	0.073
Lanarkshire	−1.031	−1.628, 0.434	0.001
Lothian	−1.519	−2.029, −1.009	<0.001
Tayside	−0.784	−1.413, 0.155	0.015

*Lower SEP : Lower socioeconomic position (Scottish Standard Grade qualifications and below), which is also the reference category
**Higher SEP: Higher socioeconomic position (Scottish Higher Grade qualifications and above)

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