Individual and contextual factors related to dental caries in underprivileged Brazilian adolescents

BMC Oral Health

Table 3 Multilevel model for number of decayed teeth

Variable	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3
	Estimate	SE	p-value	Estimate	SE	p-value	Estimate	SE	p-value
Intercept	0.4407	0.0397	<0.0001	0.5673	0.3791	0.1420	0.6717	0.3823	0.0864
Individual level
Prison inmate in the family (ref = yes)				-1.0167	0.3513	0.0039	-1.0214	0.3509	0.0037
Number of persons in the family				0.0686	0.0227	0.0026	0.0721	0.0227	0.0015
Health of teeth and mouth				0.2079	0.0314	<0.0001	0.2118	0.0314	<0.0001
Suburb level
Social exclusion index (SEI)							0.2392	0.1145	0.0369
Variances
Between suburbs	0.0132	0.0092		0.0078	0.0074		0.0039	0.0063
Between individuals	1.0859	0.0450		0.9682	0.0410		0.9684	0.0410
2 Res log likelihood	3457.25			3209.32			3207.85

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