Marital Status, the Economic Benefits of Marriage, and Days of Inactivity due to Poor Health

Table 2

Rate ratios for number of days of inactivity due to poor physical or mental health from zero-inflated negative binomial regression: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 2001–2006, 𝑁=13,678.

	1	2	3
Married (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Widowed	1.01	1.01	.95
Divorced/separated	1.27^**	1.29^**	1.13
Never married	1.33^*	1.38^**	1.24
Cohabiting	1.47^**	1.46^**	1.24^*
Age
20–39 (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00
40–64	1.68^***	1.61^***	1.62^***
65+	2.63^***	2.45^***	2.32^***
Female	1.05	1.03	1.00
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Non-Hispanic Black	1.17	1.16	1.09
Hispanic	1.13	1.18	1.06
Other ethnicity	1.22	1.26	1.22
Household size	0.99	0.99	0.99
Education
<High school (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00
High school	0.97	0.97	0.99
>High school	0.72^***	0.70^***	0.78^**
Current smoker	1.47^***	1.46^***	1.30^**
Obese	1.32^***	1.29^***	1.23^**
Usual source of care		1.44^***	1.45^***
Any health insurance		1.07	1.13
Family income/poverty ratio
0–0.99 (reference)			1.00
1–3.99			0.79^**
4-5			0.50^***

Note: analyses adjusted for sampling weights, complex sample design, survey year, and zero-inflation factors. ^*𝑃<0.05, ^**𝑃<0.01, ^***𝑃<0.001.