The variability of diagnosed migraine epidemiology amongst different municipalities in southern Israel

Table 3 Standardized (age) female-to-male ratio

	Pearson rank	Spearman rank	OR^*	CI^*		P value^*
	Pearson rank	Spearman rank	OR^*	Lower	Upper	P value^*
Demographics
Jewish communities (ethnicity)	0.494	0.547	14.2	2.12	287	0.020
High population density > 55 (persons per square kilometer)	0.122	0.010	5.44	1.04	42.5	0.026
Socioeconomic
High social state score (“Eshkol” index > 3)	0.149	0.113	2.13	0.53	9.27	0.29
High natural increase > 18 (per 1000 persons)	0.179	0.064	1.67	0.41	7.08	0.48
Low average monthly salary < 9500 (NIS)	0.031	0.108	4.20	0.78	33.0	0.12
High employee inequality (Gini index > 0.4)	0.283	0.227	2.78	0.68	12.3	0.16
Physician’s Characteristics
Mean age, > 55 years	0.339	0.252	2.62	0.59	13.0	0.21
Male > 35%	0.261	0.150	6.36	0.86	132	0.11
Native speakers appropriate > 80%	0.016	0.102	1.47	0.36	6.24	0.59
Graduates of medicine schools in Israel < 50%	0.118	0.006	2.95	0.52	23.6	0.24
Jews > 50%	0.247	0.119	1.25	0.26	6.28	0.78

SMR standardized mortality ratio, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, NIS New Israeli Shekel
^*Uni-variable logistic regression model result; the outcome is high-rate female-to-male ratio (cutoff, 3.0). It presents municipality-related characteristics associated with equal or higher than average female-to-male ratio

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