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

Table 4

Predictors of life satisfaction among young adult population in Guyana, Guyana MICS 2014.

	Pooled	Men	Women
Sex (Men)	1	NA	NA
Women	3.722^∗∗
	[1.502, 9.227]
Currently married/in union (Yes)	1	1	1
No	1.622	1.320	2.210
	[0.550, 4.778]	[0.411, 4.236]	[0.518, 9.427]
Residency (Urban)	1	1	1
Rural	0.663^∗	2.130	0.419^∗
	[0.167, 0.972]	[0.182, 4.199]	[0.236, 0.873]
Region (Barima-Waini	1	1	1
Pomeroon-Supenaam)	1.763	2.880	2.224
	[0.405, 7.668]	[0.290, 28.63]	[0.0723, 68.38]
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara	0.930	2.234	0.0786
	[0.224, 3.863]	[0.233, 21.41]	[0.00210, 2.935]
Demerara-Mahaica	1.251	2.671	0.704
	[0.336, 4.662]	[0.296, 24.11]	[0.0492, 10.08]
Mahaica-Berbice	0.389	0.566	2.718
	[0.0682, 2.214]	[0.0419, 7.642]	[0.0459, 161.0]
East Berbice-Corentyne	0.450	0.952	1.362
	[0.101, 2.000]	[0.0925, 9.803]	[0.744, 2.495]
Cuyuni-Mazaruni	1.382	1.490	1.444
	[0.720, 2.653]	[0.748, 2.970]	[0.424, 4.924]
Potaro-Siparuni	1.958	1.005	29.30
	[0.346, 11.07]	[0.0516, 19.58]	[0.760, 1129.9]
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo	9.037^∗∗	13.37^∗	4.518^∗
	[2.017, 40.49]	[1.378, 129.7]	[1.115, 20.66]
Upper Demerara-Berbice	0.696	1.470	0.511
	[0.149, 3.257]	[0.138, 15.61]	[0.0151, 17.23]
Education (None)	1	1	1
Secondary	3.105	4.178	1.322
	[0.663, 14.53]	[0.526, 33.18]	[0.0640, 27.29]
Higher	3.402	3.783	3.801
	[0.628, 18.44]	[0.411, 34.83]	[0.117, 123.6]
Ethnicity (East Indian)	1	1	1
African	0.892	0.787	1.097
	[0.506, 1.570]	[0.417, 1.486]	[0.182, 6.595]
Amerindian	0.606	0.795	0.0584
	[0.213, 1.722]	[0.246, 2.573]	[0.00243, 1.406]
Mixed Race	1.182	1.039	0.806
	[0.624, 2.236]	[0.502, 2.149]	[0.127, 5.107]
Wealth quintile (Poorest)	1	1	1
Second	1.379	1.557	0.279
	[0.644, 2.950]	[0.643, 3.766]	[0.0330, 2.358]
Middle	1.468	1.696	0.194
	[0.665, 3.241]	[0.683, 4.211]	[0.0183, 2.050]
Fourth	0.914	1.036	0.626
	[0.399, 2.095]	[0.390, 2.752]	[0.0885, 4.432]
Richest	0.665	0.572	0.482
	[0.281, 1.577]	[0.198, 1.651]	[0.0718, 3.236]
User of TV/Radio (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.812	0.714	0.948
	[0.293, 2.255]	[0.203, 2.504]	[0.0885, 10.15]
User of internet (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.629	0.648	0.644
	[0.364, 1.086]	[0.348, 1.207]	[0.425, 1.893]
Ever smokes (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.906	0.708	1.037
	[0.458, 1.790]	[0.277, 1.805]	[0.270, 3.988]
Ever drinks alcohol (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.340	1.177	3.071^∗∗
	[0.821, 2.186]	[0.682, 2.031]	[1.659, 6.311]
Pseudo R^2	0.404	0.487	0.223

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