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

Table 5

Zero-inflated negative binomial regression for days of inactivity due to poor health among persons aged 65+.

	IRR	𝑃>|𝑡|
Married (reference)	1.00
Widowed	.83	.43
Divorced/separated	.79	.32
Never married	1.17	.67
Cohabiting	1.30	.60
Year of interview	1.23	.08
Female	.69	.01
Ethnicity
Non-hispanic white (reference)	1.00
Non-hispanic black	1.19	.32
Hispanic	.65	.09
Other ethnicity	1.17	.69
Household size	.90	.14
Education	.80	.01
Current smoker	.94	.68
Obese	1.28	.05
Usual source of care	.56	.17
Any health insurance	.92	.87
Poverty to income ratio	1.16	.24
Any social support	.82	.45
Constant	21.54	.00
Inflate
Physically active	.62	.00
Constant	1.27	.00
/Lnalpha	.01	.93
Alpha	10.01