Determinants of Subjective Health, Happiness, and Life Satisfaction among Young Adults (18-24 Years) in Guyana

Table 2

Predictors of good SRH among young adult population in Guyana, Guyana MICS 2014.

	Pooled	Men	Women
Sex (Men)	1
Women	2.158	NA	NA
	[0.795, 5.859]
Currently married/in union (Yes)	1	1	1
No	1.616	1.995	1.420
	[0.467, 5.590]	[0.539, 7.384]	[0.395, 5.102]
Residency (Urban)	1	1	1
Rural	0.600^∗	0.518^∗	0.985
	[0.367, 0.982]	[0.297, 0.901]	[0.161, 6.019]
Region (Barima-Waini	1	1	1
Pomeroon-Supenaam)	3.394	9.776	2.050
	[0.800, 14.41]	[1.000, 95.57]	[0.905, 4.644]
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara	1.420	4.142	1.858
	[0.341, 5.917]	[0.425, 40.34]	[0.905, 3.815]
Demerara-Mahaica	1.394	3.533	1.180
	[0.378, 5.136]	[0.387, 32.24]	[0.335, 2.970]
Mahaica-Berbice	0.807	2.199	0.752
	[0.159, 4.098]	[0.197, 24.55]	[0.188, 3.003]
East Berbice-Corentyne	1.284	3.592	0.857
	[0.304, 5.422]	[0.359, 35.93]	[0.429, 5.698]
Cuyuni-Mazaruni	1.854	9.268	0.886
	[0.447, 7.682]	[0.918, 93.61]	[0.696, 2.175]
Potaro-Siparuni	1.398	0.925	1.091
	[0.241, 8.113]	[0.0481, 17.77]	[0.507, 2.403]
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo	1.389	1.641	0.842
	[0.276, 7.006]	[0.128, 20.97]	[0.270, 1.156]
Upper Demerara-Berbice	0.886	2.340	0.925
	[0.186, 4.222]	[0.211, 25.96]	[0.545, 2.065]
Education (None)	1	1	1
Secondary	0.628	0.820	0.780
	[0.226, 1.742]	[0.244, 2.759]	[0.439, 1.490]
Higher	0.427	0.831	0.733
	[0.115, 1.589]	[0.183, 3.768]	[0.462, 1.116]
Ethnicity (East Indian)	1	1	1
African	1.419	1.197	2.096
	[0.773, 2.607]	[0.612, 2.344]	[0.492, 4.093]
Amerindian	1.449	1.494	0.608
	[0.547, 3.838]	[0.510, 4.373]	[0.364, 1.735]
Mixed Race	2.294^∗	2.301^∗	3.150
	[1.196, 4.399]	[1.110, 4.770]	[0.215, 46.27]
Wealth quintile (Poorest)	1	1	1
Second	1.153	1.140	0.236
	[0.554, 2.398]	[0.515, 2.523]	[0.00368, 15.19]
Middle	1.314	1.054	1.854^∗
	[0.607, 2.845]	[0.451, 2.465]	[1.140, 4.292]
Fourth	0.594	0.412	5.059
	[0.246, 1.433]	[0.147, 1.154]	[0.424, 60.33]
Richest	1.128	0.811	3.184^∗
	[0.496, 2.567]	[0.314, 2.092]	[2.253, 6.023]
User of TV/Radio (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.170	0.846	10.43
	[0.389, 3.518]	[0.241, 2.975]	[0.416, 261.6]
User of internet (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.701	0.677	1.355
	[0.405, 1.215]	[0.365, 1.255]	[0.124, 14.75]
Ever smokes (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.059	1.073	0.385
	[0.502, 2.233]	[0.368, 3.132]	[0.0775, 1.908]
Ever drinks alcohol (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.741	0.910	0.159
	[0.404, 1.359]	[0.444, 1.864]	[0.0219, 1.153]
Pseudo R^2	0.267	0.189	0.209

Numbers represent odds ratios; 95% confidence intervals in [] brackets, reference category in () brackets.^∗, ^∗∗, ^∗∗∗.