Socioeconomic differences in self-rated health among women: a comparison of St. Petersburg to Estonia and Finland

Table 1 Age-adjusted means, proportions or distributions of the explanatory variables by country

	p-value^c	St. Petersburg	Estonia	Finland
Number of women^a		865	2141	1897
Mean income per month (in euro)	p < 0.001	130,1 ± 5,5	243,0 ± 4,3	874,9 ± 14,4
Education, yrs	p < 0.001
< 11 (<10)^b		5	6	6
11-13 (10–12)		41	45	27
14-16 (13–15)		42	35	38
17+ (16+)		11	13	30
Family, %	p < 0.001
Partner & child/children		36	45	44
Only partner, no child/children		24	19	24
No partner no child/children		29	22	23
Only child/children, no partner		11	13	9
Employment, %	p < 0.001
Employed		76	56	64
Student		11	24	16
Unemployed		3	4	9
Housewives		10	15	11
BMI, %	p < 0.001
Under 20		26	26	16
20-24.9		49	51	52
25-29.9		16	17	22
30+		9	7	10
Smoking, %	p < 0.001
Never		41	52	58
In past		14	18	14
Occasional		14	8	5
Current		31	22	23
Chronic diseases, %
Yes vs. no	p < 0.001	38	24	29
Mental diseases, %	p < 0.01	1	1	2
Trauma and musculoskeletal, %	p < 0.001	6	7	9
Cardio-vascular diseases, %	p < 0.001	6	4	2
Other diseases, %	p < 0.001	25	13	16

^apensioners and women with missing values in any of the studied variables were excluded.
^byears of education in brackets corresponds to Finnish population.
^cWald test for comparing countries.

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