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

Table 5

Predictors of life satisfaction in comparison with last year, Guyana MICS 2014.

	Pooled	Men	Women
Sex (Men)	1	1
Women	0.991	NA	NA
	[0.417, 2.356]
Currently married/in union (Yes)	1	1
No	0.597	0.542	0.704
	[0.204, 1.748]	[0.181, 1.625]	[0.397, 1.249]
Residency (Urban)	1	1	1
Rural	0.554^∗	0.614	0.496^∗∗
	[0.357, 0.796]	[0.328, 1.151]	[0.155, 0.990]
Region (Barima-Waini	1	1	1
Pomeroon-Supenaam)	3.437	3.127	2.176
	[0.856, 13.80]	[0.601, 16.27]	[0.0758, 62.47]
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara	1.617	1.693	0.0808
	[0.494, 5.299]	[0.395, 7.266]	[0.00304, 2.152]
Demerara-Mahaica	1.713	1.448	0.553
	[0.583, 5.027]	[0.376, 5.574]	[0.0416, 7.340]
Mahaica-Berbice	18.17^∗	13.43^∗	1.384
	[1.966, 167.9]	[1.255, 143.7]	[0.381, 5.035]
East Berbice-Corentyne	4.095^∗	3.677	1.348
	[1.160, 14.45]	[0.803, 16.84]	[0.0504, 36.00]
Cuyuni-Mazaruni	1.245	0.604	3.259
	[0.388, 3.993]	[0.136, 2.679]	[0.321, 33.06]
Potaro-Siparuni	1.854	1.823	1.596
	[0.465, 7.390]	[0.347, 9.564]	[0.0736, 34.64]
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo	0.995	0.632	3.619
	[0.295, 3.357]	[0.152, 2.622]	[0.149, 88.01]
Upper Demerara-Berbice	1.407	1.008	0.898
	[0.412, 4.810]	[0.231, 4.397]	[0.0335, 24.11]
Education (None)	1	1	1
Secondary	0.599	0.563	0.766
	[0.216, 1.661]	[0.174, 1.820]	[0.0595, 9.853]
Higher	0.733	0.996	0.839
	[0.204, 2.638]	[0.215, 4.625]	[0.0385, 18.31]
Ethnicity (East Indian)	1	1	1
African	0.893	0.954	0.736
	[0.501, 1.594]	[0.504, 1.803]	[0.115, 4.718]
Amerindian	1.234	1.268	0.296
	[0.479, 3.176]	[0.440, 3.654]	[0.0177, 4.965]
Mixed Race	0.791	1.020	0.162
	[0.417, 1.501]	[0.494, 2.103]	[0.0221, 1.189]
Wealth quintile (Poorest)	1	1	1
Second	1.431	1.527	0.803
	[0.727, 2.817]	[0.715, 3.261]	[0.103, 6.277]
Middle	1.592	1.469	3.557
	[0.776, 3.267]	[0.673, 3.207]	[0.337, 37.54]
Fourth	2.758^∗	2.264	9.960
	[1.228, 6.192]	[0.933, 5.493]	[0.669, 148.2]
Richest	2.146	2.168	1.505
	[0.977, 4.712]	[0.877, 5.361]	[0.213, 10.62]
User of TV/Radio (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.578	1.495	2.277
	[0.660, 3.774]	[0.541, 4.132]	[0.294, 17.63]
User of internet (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.936	0.905	1.304
	[0.568, 1.544]	[0.518, 1.581]	[0.302, 5.634]
Ever smokes (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.090	1.000	0.764
	[0.668, 1.778]	[0.580, 1.723]	[0.140, 4.162]
Ever drinks alcohol (No)	1	1	1
Yes	0.562^∗	0.675	0.321
	[0.339, 0.931]	[0.373, 1.222]	[0.0852, 1.210]
Pseudo R^2	0.483	0.380	0.302

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