Table 4

Associations between community asthma prevalence and individual indicators of infrastructure, socioeconomic and lifestyle indices

Groups	Indicators	Bivariate analyses		Multivariate analyses
Groups	Indicators	β	p	β	CI (95%)	p
Infrastructure	Administrative grade (parish)	0.017	0.989
	Spatial organisation
	(a) Disperse (reference)	–	–
	(b) Blocks	0.147	0.919
	(c) Neighbourhood	0.615	0.712
	Transport access (road)	−1.377	0.263	−6.059	−9.313 to −2.805	<0.001
	Electrical grid (Yes)	2.226	0.142	5.117	1.702 to 8.532	0.004
	Piped-water system (Yes)	0.455	0.721
	Telephone system (Yes)	0.939	0.443
	Health centre (Yes)	2.076	0.089
	Pharmacy (Yes)	2.296	0.058
	Educational institution (Yes)	0.449	0.715
	Shops
	(a) 0–1 (reference)	–	–	–		–
	(b) 2–5	0.407	0.866	0.706	−3.664 to 5.077	0.747
	(c) 6–15	1.603	0.484	3.974	−0.433 to 8.381	0.076
	(d) >15	1.994	0.390	5.065	0.168 to 9.961	0.043
Socioeconomic	Father's education	0.072	0.19
	Mother's education	0.023	0.62	−0.074	−0.193 to 0.046	0.221
	Household income	0.072	0.077	0.099	−0.11 to 0.208	0.078
	Access to electricity	0.029	0.077	0.045	0.005 to 0.084	0.028
	Material goods	0.104	0.05
	Cement house	0.009	0.865	−0.127	−0.247 to −0.008	0.037
	Gas for cooking	0.046	0.019
	Motor vehicles	0.164	0.012	0.168	0.043 to 0.294	0.009
	Uncrowded household	−0.053	0.235
Lifestyle	Hamburger consumption	0.104	0.015	0.076	−0.025 to 0.176	0.137
	Fizzy drink consumption	0.121	0.004	0.132	0.041 to 0.223	0.005
	No physical exercise	0.064	0.12	0.069	−0.012 to 0.149	0.093
	Television in house	0.034	0.111	−0.034	−0.088 to 0.020	0.214
	TV viewing	0.048	0.046
	No farming activities	0.065	0.05
	Cat in house	0.091	0.025	0.049	−0.035 to 0.133	0.248
	Dog in house	0.050	0.191
	Migration	0.061	0.22
	Parasite infection rate	0.009	0.777