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Table 5 Decomposition results by factors for men

From: The wider determinants of inequalities in health: a decomposition analysis

 

16 to 35 years

36 to 44 years

45 to 55 years

56 to 65 years

Control variables

    

Household income

0.0021

-0.0014

0.0114

0.0087

Education

0.0025

0.0261

0.0138

0.0084

Occupation

0.0035

0.0069

0.0156

-0.0008

House ownership and value of property

0.0053

0.0015

-0.0018

0.0000

Financial assets and value of financial assets

0.0014

0.0109

0.0073

-0.0008

Children

-0.0006

0.0016

0.0147

0.0018

Marital status

0.0019

0.0079

0.0103

0.0081

Immigrant status

0.0036

0.0008

-0.0003

0.0007

Part-time work

0.0019

0.0000

0.0017

0.0007

Materialist approach

    

Poor working conditions

-0.0011

0.0088

0.0069

0.0070

Noise

0.0074

-0.0002

0.0062

0.0025

Pollution

0.0001

0.0016

0.0007

0.0029

Insurance status

0.0007

0.0055

0.0032

0.0027

Distance to nearest doctors practice, public transport and big city

0.0002

-0.0003

-0.0010

0.0034

Psychosocial approach

    

Nobody to confide in

0.0002

-0.0001

0.0000

0.0020

Nobody supports career

0.0048

0.0006

0.0005

0.0085

Degree of autonomy at work

0.0015

0.0013

0.0108

-0.0026

Time pressure at work

0.0041

-0.0008

-0.0009

-0.0012

Level of job security

0.0007

0.0032

0.0036

-0.0028

Smoking and a lack of recognition at the workplace

0.0074

0.0040

-0.0061

-0.0005

Alcohol and a lack of recognition at the workplace

0.0006

0.0018

0.0033

0.0009

Cultural behavioural approach

    

Exercise

-0.0004

0.0061

0.0102

0.0160

Hard-liqueur consumption

0.0134

0.0022

0.0003

0.0015

Smoking status

-0.0019

-0.0018

0.0130

0.0000

Weight problems

0.0097

0.0080

0.0145

0.0306

Smoking interacted with low education

0.0066

0.0033

-0.0006

0.0006

Alcohol interacted with low education

-0.0006

0.0000

-0.0015

0.0072

Capability approach

0.0207

0.0219

0.0396

0.0511

Observations

715

1291

1180

794

R-squared

0.10

0.12

0.18

0.16