The community factors assessed were location (rural or urban), region (North or South) and media exposure.
The Interpersonal, neighborhood-level factors are defined at a smaller geographic resolution than the community factors, the primary care service area (PCSA).
This result means that their risk of divorce in the years subsequent to the move will be affected by the community factors defined by the characteristics of the new community.
Questions related to experiences with extreme heat in the communities, factors contributing to vulnerability, adaptive behaviours, and knowledge of heat-health warnings, as detailed previously [ 15].
When included as the only community factor, the parameter for population density shows a positive effect (this result is not shown in the tables).
When sociodemographic variables were added to Model 1, place of residence was the only community factor to remain significant.
For the sex ratio variable the relative change in odds is calculated from the mean sex ratio In Model 1, all of the community characteristics are included, and one can assess the importance of one community factor independently of the other observed community factors included in the model.
If these are associated with the observed community factors, these differences will confound the relationship between the observed community variables and couples' divorce risk.
The study identified three groups of risk factors by their magnitude of association with violence behaviour for violence-prone women in the community: historical factors, gender-specific factors, and substance use factors.
The fixed-effects approach has the advantage over random effect models that the unobserved factors captured by the fixed-effect dummies can be correlated with the observed community factors.
