Table 2 Impact of the onset age of visual impairment on employment and job security (reference = unemployment)
|  |  | Prime-aged adults, 20–49 (n = 245) | Late-middle-aged adults, 50–64 (n = 338) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | Logistic regression | Multinomial logistic regression | Logistic regression | Multinomial logistic regression | ||||||||
| Â | Â | Employment | Permanent employees | Â | Temporary employees | Â | Employment | Permanent employees | Temporary employees | ||||
| Â | Â | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value |
 Onset age of visual impairment | |||||||||||||
 (ref. = Age 0–5) | Age 6–17 | 0.57(0.22, 1.46) | 0.238 | 0.53(0.18,1.60) | 0.259 | 0.56(0.18,1.74) | 0.318 | 1.24(0.43,3.54) | 0.694 | 1.19(0.27,5.22) | 0.815 | 1.14(0.34,3.88) | 0.829 |
Age 18–24 | 0.75(0.24,2.30) | 0.610 | 0.76(0.21,2.70) | 0.668 | 0.67(0.18,2.54) | 0.558 | 1.35(0.41,4.42) | 0.616 | 1.56(0.30,8.10) | 0.594 | 1.18(0.28,4.93) | 0.824 | |
Age 25 +  | 0.27(0.10,0.69) | 0.007 | 0.23(0.08,0.67) | 0.007 | 0.35(0.11,1.10) | 0.072 | 2.26(0.93,5.51) | 0.072 | 1.60(0.41,6.15) | 0.497 | 2.63(0.97,7.09) | 0.057 | |
 Severity of disability | Moderate | 0.49(0.14,1.64) | 0.246 | 0.33(0.09,1.31) | 0.115 | 0.77(0.19,3.05) | 0.710 | 0.95(0.45,2.03) | 0.903 | 1.41(0.55,3.64) | 0.472 | 0.85(0.37,1.99) | 0.715 |
 (ref. = Mild) | Severe | 0.31(0.13,0.74) | 0.008 | 0.20(0.07,0.58) | 0.003 | 0.51(0.19,1.33) | 0.167 | 0.20(0.08,0.50) | 0.000 | 0.17(0.04,0.80) | 0.025 | 0.23(0.09,0.56) | 0.001 |
 Reason for disability | Acquired due to disease | 1.55(0.59,4.08) | 0.375 | 1.64(0.55,4.87) | 0.374 | 1.40(0.43,4.61) | 0.579 | 1.47(0.51,4.26) | 0.475 | 1.80(0.29,11.15) | 0.527 | 1.33(0.46,3.85) | 0.593 |
 (ref. = Congenital, unknown) | Acquired due to accident | 1.47(0.57,3.81) | 0.424 | 1.63(0.57,4.71) | 0.364 | 1.34(0.41,4.35) | 0.622 | 1.44(0.54,3.84) | 0.470 | 1.88(0.38,9.41) | 0.443 | 1.24(0.44,3.50) | 0.679 |
 Sex | Women | 0.17(0.08,0.36) | 0.000 | 0.16(0.07,0.35) | 0.000 | 0.21(0.09,0.51) | 0.001 | 0.38(0.21,0.68) | 0.001 | 0.24(0.11,0.53) | 0.000 | 0.46(0.25,0.84) | 0.012 |
 Age | Continuous | 1.10(1.05,1.16) | 0.000 | 1.10(1.03,1.16) | 0.002 | 1.11(1.04,1.17) | 0.001 | 0.84(0.78,0.90) | 0.000 | 0.78(0.71,0.85) | 0.000 | 0.87(0.80,0.94) | 0.000 |
 Married | Yes | 2.17(1.01,4.67) | 0.046 | 3.46(1.48,8.10) | 0.004 | 1.17(0.47,2.90) | 0.736 | 0.56(0.29,1.09) | 0.086 | 0.70(0.28,1.79) | 0.458 | 0.52(0.26,1.04) | 0.064 |
 Education | High school | 1.46(0.59,3.61) | 0.413 | 1.95(0.66,5.73) | 0.224 | 1.12(0.41,3.05) | 0.820 | 0.60(0.33,1.12) | 0.108 | 0.76(0.34,1.68) | 0.495 | 0.59(0.31,1.15) | 0.119 |
 (ref. =  ≤ Middle school) |  ≥ College | 1.91(0.71,5.12) | 0.198 | 3.62(1.20,10.88) | 0.022 | 0.81(0.25,2.59) | 0.720 | 0.74(0.38,1.47) | 0.392 | 2.31(0.87,6.12) | 0.092 | 0.25(0.09,0.69) | 0.007 |
 Chronic diseases | Yes | 0.56(0.27,1.16) | 0.120 | 0.57(0.25,1.29) | 0.178 | 0.54(0.24,1.25) | 0.152 | 1.44(0.78,2.64) | 0.244 | 1.34(0.63,2.87) | 0.452 | 1.51(0.76,3.01) | 0.242 |
 Self-rated health | Bad | 0.46(0.19,1.10) | 0.082 | 0.52(0.20,1.36) | 0.183 | 0.41(0.13,1.26) | 0.119 | 0.36(0.20,0.65) | 0.001 | 0.14(0.06,0.35) | 0.000 | 0.51(0.27,0.94) | 0.032 |
 Job training | Yes | 2.22(0.60,8.21) | 0.231 | 1.61(0.35,7.35) | 0.541 | 2.78(0.72,10.76) | 0.139 | 2.85(0.88,9.22) | 0.081 | 0.75(0.06,8.98) | 0.820 | 4.19(1.20,14.67) | 0.025 |
 Survey year | 2014 | 0.55(0.25,1.23) | 0.144 | 0.50(0.20,1.22) | 0.126 | 0.61(0.24,1.55) | 0.298 | 1.33(0.70,2.52) | 0.386 | 1.86(0.76,4.55) | 0.177 | 1.19(0.60,2.35) | 0.615 |
 (ref. = 2011) | 2017 | 1.10(0.48,2.55) | 0.817 | 1.00(0.39,2.59) | 0.998 | 1.27(0.47,3.47) | 0.635 | 1.51(0.72,3.16) | 0.278 | 2.81(1.09,7.27) | 0.033 | 1.10(0.50,2.43) | 0.809 |
 Pseudo R2 | 0.2222 | 0.1901 | 0.1929 | 0.2154 | |||||||||