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

Table 6

Predictors of life satisfaction within one year, Guyana MICS 2014.

	Pooled	Men	Women
Sex (Men)	1	1
Women	0.474	NA	NA
	[0.223, 1.009]
Currently married/in union (Yes)	1	1
No	0.937	1.306	0.520
	[0.333, 2.635]	[0.427, 3.988]	[0.185, 1.462]
Residency (Urban)	1	1	1
Rural	0.862	0.847	0.532^∗
	[0.524, 1.420]	[0.488, 1.470]	[0.309, 0.989]
Region (Barima-Waini)	1	1	1
(Pomeroon-Supenaam)	0.830	0.784	0.711
	[0.243, 2.836]	[0.175, 3.524]	[0.0189, 26.73]
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara	1.291	1.324	0.176
	[0.400, 4.168]	[0.302, 5.802]	[0.00727, 4.235]
Demerara-Mahaica	0.885	0.847	0.122
	[0.305, 2.566]	[0.212, 3.382]	[0.00736, 2.007]
Mahaica-Berbice	1.852	2.506	0.0975
	[0.512, 6.702]	[0.503, 12.49]	[0.00301, 3.156]
East Berbice-Corentyne	2.123	2.277	2.090
	[0.629, 7.170]	[0.494, 10.49]	[0.0638, 68.42]
Cuyuni-Mazaruni	2.739	2.179	2.718
	[0.769, 9.758]	[0.374, 12.70]	[0.264, 28.02]
Potaro-Siparuni	0.666	0.414	1.136
	[0.173, 2.560]	[0.0814, 2.107]	[0.0424, 30.44]
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo	1.020	1.594	0.0505
	[0.288, 3.606]	[0.312, 8.154]	[0.00180, 1.420]
Upper Demerara-Berbice	0.599	0.474	0.140
	[0.181, 1.979]	[0.107, 2.096]	[0.00565, 3.493]
Education (None)	1	1	1
Secondary	0.641	0.447	4.003
	[0.231, 1.781]	[0.122, 1.641]	[0.261, 61.31]
Higher	0.535	0.397	2.727
	[0.163, 1.751]	[0.0912, 1.725]	[0.111, 67.23]
Ethnicity (East Indian)	1	1	1
African	0.725	0.808	0.410
	[0.437, 1.202]	[0.464, 1.407]	[0.0662, 2.544]
Amerindian	0.913	1.064	0.467
	[0.390, 2.138]	[0.399, 2.837]	[0.0245, 8.893]
Mixed Race	0.612	0.882	0.496^∗
	[0.345, 1.086]	[0.460, 1.691]	[0.304, 0.930]
Wealth quintile (Poorest)	1	1	1
Second	1.026	0.937	1.833
	[0.553, 1.902]	[0.467, 1.881]	[0.212, 15.84]
Middle	1.771	1.380	5.107^∗∗
	[0.893, 3.510]	[0.653, 2.915]	[2.377, 17.42]
Fourth	1.959	1.514	5.885
	[0.969, 3.959]	[0.690, 3.324]	[0.884, 39.19]
Richest	1.763	1.913	1.835
	[0.864, 3.600]	[0.828, 4.419]	[0.273, 12.32]
User of TV/Radio (No)	1	1	1
Yes	2.604^∗	3.058^∗	3.437
	[1.141, 5.942]	[1.198, 7.805]	[0.374, 31.58]
User of internet (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.921^∗∗	1.822^∗	3.912
	[1.189, 3.104]	[1.066, 3.112]	[0.848, 18.03]
Ever smokes (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.392	1.521	0.952
	[0.913, 2.121]	[0.957, 2.419]	[0.225, 4.017]
Ever drinks alcohol (No)	1	1	1
Yes	1.468	1.811	0.662
	[0.871, 2.475]	[0.945, 3.468]	[0.172, 2.547]
Pseudo R^2	0.495	0.490	0.366

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