Prevalence of childhood disability and the characteristics and circumstances of disabled children in the UK: secondary analysis of the Family Resources Survey

Table 6 Logistic regression analyses, FRS 2004/5

	DDA disability
	Bivariate		Multivariate
	Odds ratio (95% confidence intervals)	p	Odds ratio (95% confidence intervals)	p
Age of child (years)
0-4	1.00
5-11	2.15 (1.80, 2.57)	<0.0001	2.07 (1.72, 2.48)	<0.0001
12-15	2.65 (2.20, 3.20)		2.39 (1.97, 2.89)	<0.0001
16-18	2.21 (1.74, 2.80)	<0.0001	2.07 (1.62, 2.65)	<0.0001
Sex of child
Girl	1.00
Boy	1.58 (1.40, 1.78)	<0.0001	1.59 (1.40, 1.80)	<0.0001
Ethnic group
Black/ethnic minority/other	1.00
White UK/other	1.43 (1.15, 1.78)	0.001	1.47 (1.17, 1.84)	0.001
No. of adults in family
2 adults	1.00
1 adult	1.51 (1.33, 1.71)	<0.0001	1.26 (1.09, 1.45)	0.002
No. of dependent children in family
2 or less	1.00
3 or more	1.10 (0,97, 1.25)	0.131	0.93 (0.81, 1.08)	0.932*
No. of adults with DDA disability/LLSI
None	1.00
1 or more	3.36 (2.96, 3.76)	<0.0001	3.04 (2.68, 3.45)	<0.0001
Housing tenure
Owner occupied	1.00
Rented/other	1.80 (1.60, 2.03)	<0.0001	1.49 (1.30, 1.71)	<0.0001

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