Decomposing socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol use by men living in South African urban informal settlements

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Decomposition of CIs of alcohol use, males aged 15+

	Elasticity	CI	Absolute contribution	% contribution
Age:
15–34	base	base	base	base
35–44	0.0153	−0.0172	−0.0011	1.01
45–54	− 0.0001	−0.0947	0.0000	−0.03
55-over	−0.002	0.0785	−0.0006	0.59
Total				1.57
Education:
No education	base	base	base	base
Primary	−0.0199	−0.105	0.0084	−8.02
Secondary	−0.0386	0.0138	−0.0021	2.04
Matric	−0.0115	0.0343	−0.0016	1.52
Tertiary	−0.0054	0.2219	−0.0048	4.56
Total				0.11
Marital status:
Married	base	base	base	base
Never married	−0.0200	0.0171	− 0.0014	1.31
Widowed/Separated	0.0032	−0.1218	−0.0015	1.49
Total				2.80
Race:
African	base	base	base	base
Non-African	−0.0027	0.3925	−0.0042	4.02
Employment status:
Unemployed	base	base	base	base
Employed	0.0309	−0.0266	−0.0033	3.15
Wealth status:
Quintile 1 (Poorest)	base	base	base	base
Quintile 2	0.0132	−0.3713	−0.0195	18.76
Quintile3	0.0091	0.0280	0.001	−0.98
Quintile 4	−0.0134	0.4266	−0.0229	21.94
Quantile 5 (Richest)	−0.0218	0.8131	−0.0709	68.09
Total				107.81
Province:
Western Cape	base	base	base	base
Gauteng	0.0283	0.0194	0.0022	−2.11
Eastern Cape	0.0134	0.1277	0.0068	−6.55
Northern Cape	0.0055	0.4892	0.0108	−10.40
Free State	0.0033	−0.1994	−0.0026	2.50
Kwa-Zulu Natal	0.0000	−0.1302	0.0000	−0.02
North West	0.0091	0.0891	0.0032	−3.10
Mpumalanga	0.0002	0.2090	0.0002	−0.17
Limpopo	−0.0032	− 0.6294	0.0081	−7.80
Total				−27.66
Residual				8.19

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