Examining Health Inequalities in Latvia: A Decade of Association between Socioeconomic Position and Perceived Health Status

Table 4

Factors contributing to health inequalities.

Effects and contributions of predictor variables	Change in contribution (%) 2005–2015	2015		2010		2005
		Marginal effect	% contribution	Marginal effect	% contribution	Marginal effect	% contribution
Age	15.9	−0.33	25.70	−0.54	29.10	−0.71	41.60
Gender (=female)	2.0	0.01	−0.50	−0.00	0.10	−0.04	1.50
Education	−2.6	0.03	9.70	0.02	10.00	0.03	7.10
Working status	−14.0	0.04	10.90	0.02	5.80	−0.01	−3.10
Household income	0.4	0.71	43.90	0.49	34.30	0.88	44.30
Ease of survival	1.2	0.01	7.20	0.02	9.80	0.02	8.40
Ownership of house	0.5	−0.01	−0.40	0.01	0.60	0.0	0.10
Regional effect			0.30		7.30		¥
Residual		0.002		0.002		−0.001

¥: no data for the variable is available in the wave.