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

Table 3

Predictors of positive estimation of happiness among young adult population in Guyana, Guyana MICS 2014.

	Pooled	Men	Women
Sex (Men)	1	NA	NA
Women	1.036
	[0.431, 2.490]
Currently married/in union (Yes)	1	1	1
No	0.872	0.873	1.368
	[0.288, 2.639]	[0.283, 2.690]	[0.453, 4.135]
Residency (Urban)	1	1	1
Rural	0.971	0.901	0.662^∗
	[0.631, 1.493]	[0.565, 1.438]	[0.381, 0.845]
Region (Barima-Waini	1	1	1
Pomeroon-Supenaam)	0.758	1.061	0.141
	[0.203, 2.835]	[0.220, 5.112]	[0.017, 1.136]
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara	0.739	0.960	0.418
	[0.218, 2.504]	[0.215, 4.283]	[0.165, 3.164]
Demerara-Mahaica	0.850	1.081	0.491
	[0.277, 2.608]	[0.262, 4.456]	[0.165, 4.651]
Mahaica-Berbice	1.144	1.292	1.142
	[0.322, 4.068]	[0.277, 6.028]	[0.808, 2.114]
East Berbice-Corentyne	0.349	0.528	0.441
	[0.0973, 1.249]	[0.112, 2.495]	[0.329, 2.895]
Cuyuni-Mazaruni	0.985	0.697	1.219
	[0.284, 3.412]	[0.127, 3.824]	[0.446, 2.127]
Potaro-Siparuni	1.523	1.127	2.741
	[0.359, 6.452]	[0.193, 6.592]	[0.752, 4.088]
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo	2.746	2.420	1.275
	[0.743, 10.15]	[0.503, 11.65]	[0.807, 4.674]
Upper Demerara-Berbice	0.331^∗∗∗	0.313^∗∗∗	0.720
	[0.198, 0.554]	[0.176, 0.555]	[0.434, 1.916]
Education (None/primary)	1	1	1
Secondary	1.102	0.824	2.219^∗
	[0.394, 3.082]	[0.270, 2.513]	[1.209, 3.720]
Higher	1.936^∗	1.430	1.600^∗
	[1.293, 4.315]	[0.395, 5.170]	[1.041, 3.302]
Ethnicity (East Indian)	1	1	1
African	1.276	1.377	0.685
	[0.774, 2.102]	[0.800, 2.372]	[0.437, 1.074]
Amerindian	0.965	1.259	0.597
	[0.404, 2.304]	[0.475, 3.338]	[0.193, 1.847]
Mixed Race	1.261	1.228	0.830
	[0.703, 2.260]	[0.638, 2.362]	[0.0815, 8.457]
Wealth quintile (Poorest)	1	1	1
Second	1.288	1.314	1.270
	[0.663, 2.505]	[0.621, 2.780]	[0.123, 13.08]
Middle	1.016	1.216	1.852
	[0.505, 2.047]	[0.558, 2.650]	[0.0978, 35.08]
Fourth	0.805	0.929	0.435
	[0.391, 1.658]	[0.410, 2.105]	[0.0354, 5.331]
Richest	2.100^∗	2.000	4.187^∗∗
	[1.121, 3.931]	[0.913, 4.384]	[1.924, 8.609]
User of TV/Radio (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.609	0.377^∗	1.190
	[0.257, 1.443]	[0.143, 0.993]	[0.588, 2.329]
User of internet (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.450	0.889	1.430
	[0.118, 1.724]	[0.183, 4.334]	[0.807, 2.534]
Ever smokes (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.970	1.260	0.875
	[0.469, 2.003]	[0.552, 2.875]	[0.492, 1.967]
Ever drinks alcohol (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.027	0.848	3.408^∗
	[0.619, 1.703]	[0.461, 1.560]	[1.387, 9.098]
Pseudo R^2	0.378	0.475	0.376

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