Depression and termination of pregnancy (induced abortion) in a national cohort of young Australian women: the confounding effect of women's experience of violence

Table 1 Probable depression and associations with sociodemographic factors. Survey 2 of the Younger cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health 2000

			Depressed (presumed from CESD ≥ 10)
Variable	Total¹	Column%	%	AOR^{2 3}	95% CI
Total	9,327	100	30
Marital status
Single	5,193	56	33	1.00
Married	2,114	23	25	0.61 ***	0.54 – 0.70
De facto	1,798	19	28	0.76 ***	0.67 – 0.87
Wid/sep/divorced	183	2	40	1.13	0.81 – 1.58
Age (at response to Survey 2)
<24 years	2,326	25	32	1.00
≥ 24 years	7,007	75	30	0.99	0.88 – 1.11
Education level
None/year10 education	821	9	38	1.07	0.89 – 1.28
HSC	2,027	23	35	1.00
App/cert	2,085	23	30	0.83 *	0.72 – 0.96
Degree or higher	4,098	45	26	0.72 ***	0.62 – 0.83
Occupation
Manager/professional	3,960	44	26	1.00
Para-professional	593	7	26	0.93	0.75 – 1.16
Trade/clerical	2,721	31	32	1.23 **	1.07 – 1.41
Blue-collar	514	6	32	1.17	0.93 – 1.47
No paid job	261	3	33	1.18	0.88 – 1.58
Other⁴	773	9	39	1.76 ***	1.45 – 2.14
Health insurance
No private cover	6,228	67	32	1.00
Has private cover	3,043	33	27	0.85 **	0.76 – 0.95
Country of birth
Australian born	8,838	95	30	1.00
European born	107	1	30	0.96	0.58 – 1.57
Asian born	323	4	37	1.32 *	1.00 – 1.74
Area of residence
Urban	6,682	75	31	1.00
Rural	1,989	22	28	0.79 ***	0.71 – 0.88
Remote	302	3	30	0.92	0.72 – 1.18

1 Total numbers within variables vary due to missing responses, column %'s calculates without including missing category
2 Adjusted odds ratio, mutually adjusted for all other sociodemographic factors in table as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait identity.
3 ^M p < 0.10, * p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤ 0.001
4 Other includes home duties, group comprises women more likely to be married and to have children than those in other groups

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