Material deprivation and health: a longitudinal study

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Table 7 Change in LLSI as a function of not affording a car and changes in LSI. Generalised mixed effects models

	3a	3b	4a	4b
	LLSI	LLSI	LLSI	LLSI
Variables	Odds ratio (95 % CI)	Odds ratio (95 % CI)	Odds ratio (95 % CI)	Odds ratio (95 % CI)
Transition into cannot afford a car^a	1.372***	1.303***	1.428***	1.377***
	(1.297–1.452)	(1.228–1.383)	(1.356–1.504)	(1.304–1.455)
Covariates:
Partnership, children, age, age squared	No	Yes	No	Yes
Longstanding illness (LSI) at t	Yes	Yes	No	No
Longstanding illness (LSI) at t-1	No	No	Yes	Yes
Random-effects
Level 3: Country	0.180	0.207	0.116	0.144
	(0.083–0.276)	(0.095–0.319)	(0.053–0.179)	(0.066–0.221)
Level 2: Respondent	1.300	1.306	0.928	0.995
	(1.266–1.334)	(1.270–1.342)	(0.900–0.962)	(0.962–1.028)
Number of observations	312,076	312,076	234,057	234,057
Number of respondents	78,019	78,019	78,019	78,019
Number of countries	27	27	27	27

* = p < 0.10, ** = p < 0.05 & *** = p < 0.01
^aThe variable only includes the transition into not affording a car, not transition from not affording a car to affording a car. The variable is coded 1 the first year [t] a transition from “affording a car” or “do not have a car because of other reasons” [t-1] to “no cannot afford one” [t] is observed. All observations after the transition are coded 1 in order to avoid transition back to affording a car contributing to the estimates. All other observations are coded 0

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