Table 4 Multivariate results for association of age, sex, area, income quintile and separation year with cancer count (offset by population count), for first, other and all separations by all and specific cancers (SAS PROC GENMOD-GEE). Results shown are chi-square, associated degrees of freedom (DF) and p-values of score statistics for type 3 GEE analysis.

all cancers

lung

colorectal

breast

prostate

DF

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

age

4

55.16

<0.0001

50.00

<0.0001

51.95

<0.0001

18.92

0.0008

30.85

<0.0001

sex

1

18.79

<0.0001

24.58

<0.0001

22.70

<0.0001

-

-

-

-

area

1

7.03

0.0080

6.06

0.0138

3.32

0.0685

0.42

0.5174

4.33

0.0375

quint

4

1.40

0.8446

6.32

0.1767

7.59

0.1079

10.39

0.0344

8.82

0.0657

syear

7

18.32

0.0106

13.75

0.0558

7.71

0.3589

7.08

0.4209

15.04

0.0355

First separations

all cancers

lung

colorectal

breast

prostate

DF

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

age

4

52.09

<0.0001

51.51

<0.0001

52.88

<0.0001

20.33

0.0004

29.65

<0.0001

sex

1

16.60

<0.0001

22.04

<0.0001

22.19

<0.0001

-

-

-

-

area

1

1.74

0.1869

2.84

0.0917

0.81

0.3685

1.18

0.2774

1.92

0.1664

quint

4

1.88

0.7584

7.37

0.1175

8.03

0.0903

8.92

0.0632

7.90

0.0952

syear

7

44.79

<0.0001

21.69

0.0029

20.84

0.0040

13.61

0.0585

13.66

0.0575

Other separations

all cancers

lung

colorectal

breast

prostate

DF

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

Chi-square

p

age

4

50.55

<0.0001

49.87

<0.0001

41.14

<0.0001

20.37

0.0004

31.85

<0.0001

sex

1

18.51

<0.0001

24.27

<0.0001

15.69

<0.0001

-

-

-

-

area

1

11.95

0.0005

6.80

0.0091

5.59

0.0180

3.10

0.0781

5.73

0.0166

quint

4

0.85

0.9318

5.10

0.2774

4.86

0.3023

8.71

0.0687

8.08

0.0885

syear

7

46.56

<0.0001

23.60

0.0013

10.68

0.1530

16.30

0.0225

21.01

0.0038