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Table 3 Multiple linear regression models explaining the healthy life expectancy

From: Correlates of healthy life expectancy in low- and lower-middle-income countries

Explanatory Variables

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

Model 5

Model 6

Adjusted β

SE of β (95% CI)

Unadjusted β

SE of β (95% CI)

Unadjusted β

SE of β (95% CI)

Unadjusted β

SE of β (95% CI)

Unadjusted β

SE of β (95% CI)

Unadjusted β

SE of β (95% CI)

Mean years of schooling

0.46

0.19* (0.09, 0.85)

1.25

0.20** (0.85, 1.66)

        

Total Fertility Rate

−2.26

0.42** (−3.09, −1.43)

  

−3.14

0.32** (−3.77, −2.50)

      

Freedom of the Press

0.05

0.02* (−0.002, 0.09)

    

0.05

0.04 (−0.02, 0.12)

    

Achieving a level of health-related MDGs

0.60

0.28* (0.04, 1.17)

      

1.69

0.34** (1.03, 2.36)

  

Urban population (% of total)

−0.004

0.03 (−0.06, 0.05)

        

0.07

0.04 (−0.02, 0.15)

\( {R}_a^2 \)

0.61

0.32

0.55

0.01

0.24

0.02

  1. Notes: ‘β Regression coefficient’, ‘SE Standard error’, ‘CI Confidence interval’, ‘** Significant at p < 0.01’; ‘* Significant at p < .05’; ‘MDGs Millennium Development Goals’