Table 4 Unadjusted and adjusted associations of socioeconomic and religious factors with poor self-rated health in China and Korea (base outcome is excellent self-rated health): Results of multinomial logistic regression analyses

 Elementary school/lower (ref.)

 Junior high school

(0.30–0.47)

(0.20–0.66)

(0.48–0.85)

(0.20–0.89)

 Senior high school

(0.27–0.48)

(0.14–0.38)

(0.50–1.03)

(0.25–0.96)

 College/higher

(0.09–0.23)

(0.06–0.17)

(0.28–0.84)

(0.14–0.59)

 Not employed^a (ref.)

 Employed

(0.31–0.45)

(0.39–0.75)

(0.45–0.75)

(0.45–1.01)

 Lowest quartile (ref.)

 2nd lowest quartile

(0.50–0.84)

(0.28–0.72)

(0.51–0.96)

(0.40–1.23)

 2nd highest quartile

(0.36–0.64)

(0.29–0.79)

(0.33–0.66)

(0.42–1.38)

 Highest quartile

(0.34–0.66)

(0.31–0.88)

(0.33–0.73)

(0.42–1.46)

 Missing

(0.34–0.68)

(0.31–0.94)

(0.42–0.95)

(0.38–1.38)

 Lowest (ref.)

 Low

(0.39–0.64)

(0.43–1.21)

(0.40–0.72)

(0.61–2.05)

 High

(0.28–0.47)

(0.36–0.99)

(0.31–0.58)

(0.46–1.53)

 Highest

(0.28–0.74)

(0.42–1.47)

(0.27–0.84)

(0.52–2.28)

 Christian (ref.)

 Buddhist

(0.46–1.98)

(1.16–2.55)

(0.58–3.23)

(1.23–3.13)

 Others^b

(0.50-1.58)

(0.75–1.55)

(0.64–2.49)

(0.88–2.06)

 N

 Likelihood χ² (degree of freedom)

 -2 Log likelihood