Social inequalities in health: measuring the contribution of housing deprivation and social interactions for Spain

Urbanos-Garrido, Rosa M

doi:10.1186/1475-9276-11-77

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Social inequalities in health: measuring the contribution of housing deprivation and social interactions for Spain

Variables		Definition	Mean	Std. Dev.	Concentration index
Ill-health	SAH	Self-assessed health: 1 if fair, poor or very poor; 0 if good or very good	0.292	0.454	−0.150
	Chronic	Chronic conditions: 1 if any chronic disease, disability or condition	0.218	0.413	−0.097
	Limit	Limitations in daily activity: 1 if any kind of limitations in daily activity due to health problems in the preceding six months	0.203	0.402	−0.101
Age
	Age1	Age 16–34 (reference category)	0.326	0.469	0.045
	Age2	Age 35-44	0.207	0.405	0.034
	Age3	Age 45-49	0.239	0.426	0.055
	Age4	Age 60-74	0.148	0.355	−0.100
	Age5	Age > 75	0.080	0.271	−0.251
Sex
	Female	Female	0.506	0.500	−0.023
	Foreign	Born outside Spain	0.050	0.219	−0.149
	Couple	Married or living with his/her partner	0.637	0.481	0.021
Education
	Ed1	Primary education or below (reference category)	0.313	0.463	−0.233
	Ed2	Compulsory secondary education	0.229	0.420	−0.112
	Ed3	Non-compulsory and pre-university secondary education	0.206	0.405	0.071
	Ed4	Specific labour training	0.012	0.109	0.055
	Ed5	University graduate	0.240	0.427	0.346
Labour status
	Employed	Employed in a full-time job (reference category)	0.481	0.590	0.180
	Unemployed	Unemployed	0.069	0.253	−0.252
	Student	Student or trainee	0.076	0.266	−0.098
	Retired	Retired	0.131	0.338	−0.140
	Invalid	Permanently disabled	0.018	0.134	−0.162
	Home	Engaged in housework or child care	0.124	0.329	−0.232
	Otherinact	Other inactive situations	0.043	0.204	−0.256
	Part-time	Employed in a part-time job	0.058	0.234	−0.010
Social interactions
	Freqfam1	Daily or weekly face contacts with family members not belonging to the household (reference category)	0.620	0.485	−0.009
	Freqfam2	Family face contacts several times a month or once a month	0.229	0.420	0.063
	Freqfam3	Family face contacts less than once a month, or never	0.151	0.358	−0.058
	Freqfriend1	Daily or weekly face contacts with friends (reference category)	0.668	0.471	0.011
	Freqfriend2	Friends face contacts several times a month or once a month	0.208	0.406	0.066
	Freqfriend3	Friends face contacts less than once a month, or never	0.124	0.330	−0.171
	Contfam1	Daily or weekly non-face contacts with family (reference category)	0.680	0.466	0.037
	Contfam2	Family non-face contacts several times a month or once a month	0.213	0.409	−0.040
	Contfam3	Family non-face contacts less than once a month, or never	0.107	0.309	−0.158
	Contfriend1	Daily or weekly non-face contacts with friends (reference category)	0.595	0.491	0.073
	Contfriend2	Friends non-face contacts several times a month or once a month	0.224	0.417	−0.007
	Contfriend3	Friends non-face contacts less than once a month, or never	0.180	0.385	−0.233
	Particip	Participation in any organized non-work activity	0.655	0.475	0.025
Degree of urbanization
	Density1	Very populated area (reference category)	0.529	0.499	0.105
	Density2	Medium populated area of residence	0.201	0.401	−0.055
	Density3	Sparsely populated area of residence	0.270	0.444	−0.164
Housing deprivation
	Dephousing1	Home suffering from one deprivation problem	0.249	0.432	−0.089
	Dephousing2	Home suffering from two or more of deprivation problems	0.060	0.238	−0.393
Financial deprivation
	Findepriv1	Suffers from one financial deprivation problem	0.194	0.395	−0.091
	Findepriv2	Suffers from two or more financial deprivation problems	0.278	0.448	−0.335
	Nodentist	Did not get dental treatment due to financial problems	0.032	0.175	−0.309
Income
	Eqhincome	Log of equivalent household income	9.325	0.667	0.036
Region of residence
	Reg1	Galicia	0.068	0.252	−0.119
	Reg2	Asturias	0.028	0.164	0.045
	Reg3	Cantabria	0.014	0.116	0.048
	Reg4	País Vasco	0.047	0.212	0.185
	Reg5	Navarra	0.015	0.120	0.256
	Reg6	Rioja	0.007	0.086	−0.024
	Reg7	Aragón	0.031	0.174	0.074
	Reg8	Madrid	0.133	0.340	0.152
	Reg9	Castilla y León	0.061	0.240	−0.118
	Reg10	Castilla-La Mancha	0.038	0.191	−0.121
	Reg11	Extremadura	0.024	0.153	−0.306
	Reg12	Cataluña	0.162	0.368	0.173
	Reg13	Comunidad Valenciana	0.109	0.312	−0.025
	Reg14	Islas Baleares	0.020	0.141	0.151
	Reg15	Andalucía	0.167	0.373	−0.166
	Reg16	Región de Murcia	0.029	0.167	−0.089
	Reg17	Ceuta	0.002	0.039	−0.139
	Reg18	Melilla	0.001	0.035	0.078
	Reg19	Islas Canarias	0.044	0.205	−0.164

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