Health inequalities by socioeconomic characteristics in Spain: the economic crisis effect

Table 6 Odds-ratios, Ω _i/j, from logit and probit models

		2006–07		2011–12
Attribute	Alternative	Logit⁽¹⁾	Probit⁽²⁾	Logit⁽¹⁾	Probit⁽²⁾
Education level	No education or primary school (i)	-	-	-	-
	Secondary studies (j)	1.51	1.52	1.64	1.68
	University studies (j)	2.39	2.39	2.97	3.03
Interviewee’s professional status	Employee (i)	-	-	-	-
	Unemployed (j)	0.76	0.76	0.75	0.76
	Retired (j)	0.54	0.54	0.62	0.61
	Student (j)	2.06	1.97	1.73	1.65
	Others (j)	0.79	0.78	0.51	0.50
Reference person professional status	Employee (i)	-	-	-	-
	No employee (j)	0.76	0.75	0.81	0.80
Gender	Man (i)	-	-	-	-
	Woman (j)	0.61	0.61	0.74	0.73
Age	16–34 years old (i)	-	-	-	-
	35–49 years old (j)	0.65	0.65	0.49	0.49
	50–64 years old (j)	0.41	0.41	0.32	0.32
	65–74 years old (j)	0.47	0.46	0.33	0.33
	75 or more years old (j)	0.34	0.33	0.17	0.17
Nationality	Spanish (i)	-	-	-	-
	Foreign (j)	0.74	0.74	0.88	0.88
Marital status	Single and not living with a partner (i)	-	-	-	-
	Married or single and living with a partner (j)	0.87	0.88	1.04	1.03
	Widower, legally separated or divorced (j)	0.81	0.80	0.84	0.81

⁽¹⁾In each attribute, the odds-ratios are expressed when the attribute category changes from i to j
⁽²⁾In the case of the probit model, the odds-ratios are calculated from average of individual odds-ratios when the attribute category changes from i to j

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