Table 2

The association between sociodemographic factors and clusters of LTC trajectories

	Adjusted OR (95% CI) (Reference: no LTC)
Sociodemographics	Single LTC	Evolving multimorbidity	Moderate multimorbidity	High multimorbidity
Age	1.04 (1.03 to 1.04)	1.05 (1.05 to 1.06)	1.07 (1.06 to 1.08)	1.08 (1.07 to 1.09)
Sex
Male	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Female	1.00 (0.91 to 1.10)	1.11 (0.99 to 1.23)	1.13 (1.01 to 1.27)	0.95 (0.81 to 1.11)
Ethnicity
White	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Non-white	1.17 (0.91 to 1.50)	1.13 (0.85 to 1.49)	1.36 (1.00 to 1.86)	2.04 (1.40 to 3.00)
Education
Less than upper secondary	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Upper secondary, vocational	0.92 (0.81 to 1.03)	0.87 (0.77 to 0.99)	0.77 (0.67 to 0.88)	0.53 (0.45 to 0.64)
Tertiary	0.84 (0.72 to 0.97)	0.68 (0.58 to 0.80)	0.51 (0.42 to 0.62)	0.33 (0.25 to 0.45)
Others	1.01 (0.83 to 1.25)	1.04 (0.84 to 1.28)	0.99 (0.79 to 1.25)	0.76 (0.57 to 1.02)
Employment
Unemployed	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Paid employment	0.79 (0.70 to 0.89)	0.54 (0.48 to 0.62)	0.35 (0.31 to 0.40)	0.17 (0.13 to 0.21)
Marital status
Never married	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Married/partner	0.85 (0.69 to 1.04)	0.90 (0.72 to 1.14)	0.80 (0.62 to 1.03)	0.82 (0.58 to 1.15)
Separated/divorced/widowed	0.97 (0.77 to 1.23)	1.14 (0.88 to 1.48)	1.27 (0.96 to 1.68)	1.41 (0.98 to 2.04)