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Table 2 Explanatory model for cases of childhood tuberculosis (Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 2006–2017) following the zero-inflated Poisson distribution

From: Risk areas for tuberculosis among children and their inequalities in a city from Southeast Brazil

Variables (median)

Coefficient

P

OR (95% CI)

Private and collective homes (>  85)

1.88

0.005

6.55 (1.75–24.28)

Average residents in permanent private housing units (>  3)

−0.69

0.06

NA

Proportion of children from 0 to 5 years in the population (>  5)

1.13

0.01

3.09 (1.25–7.61)

Proportion of households without per capita income (>  0.6)

1.75

0.01

1.78 (1.12–2.82)

Proportion of private households with monthly nominal incomes of up to 1/4 minimum wages (>  48.6)

1.02

0.02

2.77 (1.10–7.02)

Share of household income in household income (%) (>  69)

−0.53

0.50

NA

Proportion of female heads of household under 30 (>  69)

−1.15

0.04

0.31 (0.10–0.91)

Average income of head of household (> BRL 2344)

−3.19

0.002

0.04 (0.01–0.33)

  1. Abbreviations: BRL Brazilian real, CI Confidence interval, OR Odds ratio