Social costs associated with fibromyalgia in Spain

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Table 7 Probability that a patient with fibromyalgia is working and probability of being unemployed (marginal effects after probit)

	Prob (working)			Prob(unemployed)
	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3
Dependent’s characteristics
Man	-0.115**	-0.118**	-0.105**	0.153	0.246	0.267
Man	(0.054)	(0.053)	(0.073)	(0.202)	(0.209)	(0.219)
Age	-0.007***	-0.008**	-0.006**	0.002	0.001	0.001
Age	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Dependency degree
Moderate dependent	-0.052	-0.056	-0.056	-0.037	-0.048	-0.003
Moderate dependent	(0.052)	(0.051)	(0.051)	(0.118)	(0.119)	(0.121)
Severe dependent	-0.184**	-0.187***	-0.182***	0.658***	0.632***	0.716***
Severe dependent	(0.112)	(0.082)	(0.082)	(0.302)	(0.304)	(0.307)
Highly dependent	-0.214**	-0.219***	-0.212***
Highly dependent	(0.102)	(0.101)	(0.101)
Level of education
Elementary		-0.077	-0.075		0.267	0.261
Elementary		(0.074)	(0.074)		(0.210)	(0.214)
High school		0.011	0.013		0.161	0.145
High school		(0.062)	(0.062)		(0.167)	(0.168)
College		0.173**	0.165**		-0.012	0.005
College		(0.072)	(0.072)		(0.179)	(0.182)
Size of municipality
50,000–100,000 inhabitants			0.077			-0.031
50,000–100,000 inhabitants			(0.065)			(0.125)
20,000–50,000 inhabitants			0.086			-0.261**
20,000–50,000 inhabitants			(0.059)			(0.129)
10,000–20,000 inhabitants			0.000			-0.082
10,000–20,000 inhabitants			(0.063)			(0.151)
Less than 10,000 inhabitants			-0.032			0.018
Less than 10,000 inhabitants			(0.055)			(0.137)
Constant	0.685***	0.566***	0.534***	0.222	0.162	0.215
Constant	(0.143)	(0.157)	(0.160)	(0.306)	(0.356)	(0.382)
N	394	394	394	122	122	122
R2	0.350	0.386	0.397	0.239	0.276	0.313
F	24.079	24.537	23.412	21.173	21.345	21.280
P	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.000

Omitted variables: dependent characteristics (not eligible; has not completed elementary education), provincial capitals and municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. M3 models include regional unemployment rate. Estimates obtained using sampling weights. The probability of being employed is calculated over the entire working age population. The probability of being unemployed is calculated over the active population
*Statistically significant (p<0.1)
**Statistically significant (p<0.05)
***Statistically significant (p<0.01)

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