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Table 2 Reduction of private and professional contacts after 18 March 2020 by educational and occupational status (n = 2,656)

From: Socioeconomic differences in the reduction of face-to-face contacts in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Reduction of private contacts

Educational status (ref. high)

Occupational status (ref. high)

Low

Medium

Low

Medium

M1a: Confounder model*

0.79 (0.68;0.91)

p = 0.002

0.93 (0.89;0.97)

p = 0.001

  

M2a: M1a + adjusting for occupational status

0.81 (0.70;0.94)

p = 0.006

0.95 (0.91;0.99)

p = 0.028

  

Reduction of professional contacts

 M1b: Confounder model*

0.76 (0.62;0.93)

p = 0.008

0.80 (0.75;0.85)

p < 0.001

0.58 (0.52;0.66)

p < 0.001

0.78 (0.74;0.83)

p < 0.001

 M2b: M1b + adjusting for occupational resp. educational status

0.87 (0.70;1.07)

p = 0.179

0.89 (0.83;0.95)

p = 0.001

0.62 (0.55;0.71)

p < 0.001

0.82 (0.77;0.88)

p < 0.001

 M3b: M2b + adjusting for working remotely

0.93 (0.76;1.15)

p = 0.500

0.92 (0.86;0.98)

p = 0.011

0.69 (0.61;0.78)

p < 0.001

0.89 (0.83;0.94)

p < 0.001

  1. *Prevalence ratios with 95% confidence intervals (in brackets) adjusted for municipality, age, gender, country of birth, household size, contact level before 18 March 2020, contact to SARS-CoV-2 infected people, own infection (lifetime); Significant p-values (p < 0.05) in bold