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Table 1 Distribution of wealth, education, gender, and ethnicity by intrinsic capacity trajectories

From: Intrinsic capacity trajectories and socioeconomic inequalities in health: the contributions of wealth, education, gender, and ethnicity

 

Steep decreasing

Moderate decreasing

Slight increasing

P-value

n = 463 (17%)

n = 1361 (50%)

n = 898 (33%)

Exposures

 Wealth (permanent income quintiles)

  Q1 (poorest)

33.1

23.0

14.5

 

  Q2

20.8

20.6

13.1

 

  Q3

20.6

21.5

19.0

< 0.01

  Q4

16.8

20.7

24.2

 

  Q5 (richest)

8.6

14.3

29.2

 

 Educational level (quintiles)

  Q1 (lowest)

49.0

25.6

9.9

 

  Q2

22.4

24.8

16.2

 

  Q3

20.8

32.1

31.2

< 0.01

  Q4

4.5

8.9

17.6

 

  Q5 (highest)

3.4

8.6

25.2

 

 Gender (female = 1)

77.3

66.5

42.7

< 0.01

 Ethnicity (indigenous = 1)

11.3

9.7

8.0

0.13

  1. P-value for Chi-square test