Ageing under unequal circumstances: a cross-sectional analysis of the gender and socioeconomic patterning of functional limitations among the Southern European elderly

Serrano-Alarcón, Manuel; Perelman, Julian

doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0673-0

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 2 Marginal effects for functional limitation, from the multinomial model

From: Ageing under unequal circumstances: a cross-sectional analysis of the gender and socioeconomic patterning of functional limitations among the Southern European elderly

	Moderately limited				Severely limited
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
VARIABLES	ES	IT	PT	All	ES	IT	PT	All
Age	0.004***	0.006***	0.003	0.005***	0.005***	0.003***	0.005***	0.005***
Age	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)
Sex
Base category: Male
Female	0.047***	0.070***	0.071**	0.061***	0.032***	0.011*	0.052***	0.023***
Female	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)
Education level
Base category: No education
Primary	−0.040**	−0.067	−0.034	−0.046**	−0.048***	−0.010	−0.034	−0.028***
Primary	(0.02)	(0.04)	(0.05)	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.03)	(0.01)
Secondary	−0.028	−0.108*	−0.048	−0.064***	−0.061***	−0.020	−0.028	−0.046***
Secondary	(0.02)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)
Tertiary	−0.023	−0.041	0.035	−0.021	−0.049***	−0.018***	−0.047***	−0.035***
Tertiary	(0.02)	(0.04)	(0.07)	(0.02)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)
Subjective poverty
Base category: Not Poor
Poor	0.042***	0.056***	0.089***	0.055***	0.041***	0.015**	0.043***	0.031***
Poor	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)
Employment status
Base category: Active
Inactive	0.056**	0.013	0.087**	0.037**	0.026	0.032**	0.065**	0.018
Inactive	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.01)
Homemaker	0.069**	0.031	0.015	0.052**	0.008	0.051	0.113	0.013
Homemaker	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.05)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.09)	(0.02)
Marital status
Base category: Not in a couple
In a couple	0.001	−0.016	0.019	−0.009	−0.014	−0.008	−0.001	−0.014*
In a couple	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.04)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.02)	(0.01)
Country dummies
Spain				−0.036***				−0.011
Spain				(0.01)				(0.01)
Italy				−0.028*				−0.016*
Italy				(0.01)				(0.01)
Observations	3222	3388	1909	8519	3222	3388	1909	8519

Standard errors in parentheses *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. Marginal effects reported in the table are adjusted for the covariates included in the same column

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