Association between social class at birth and multimorbidity (logistic regression) and educational attainment (ordinal regression), n=6561
| Social class of the father at birth of the participant | Multimorbidity * | Educational attainment† | ||
| OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | |
| I/II (Professional/Managerial) | 0.62 | 0.38 to 0.99 | 4.12 | 3.50 to 4.85 |
| III (Skilled non-manual) | 0.95 | 0.66 to 1.37 | 1.76 | 1.54 to 2.03 |
| III (Skilled manual) | 1 (reference group) | |||
| IV (Partly skilled) | 1.18 | 0.85 to 1.64 | 0.56 | 0.49 to 0.65 |
| V (Unskilled) | 1.43 | 1.06 to 1.93 | 0.45 | 0.40 to 0.52 |
| Unemployed/unknown/disabled/dead | 1.85 | 1.19 to 2.88 | 0.84 | 0.66 to 1.05 |
*Model statistically significant, p=0.002.
†Model statistically significant, p<0.001.