The health and economic burden of dust pollution in the textile industry of Faisalabad, Pakistan

Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association

Table 2 Marginal effects of the status of illness (ordered probit) (N = 206)

	Dependent variable: byssinosis
Independent variables	Coefficient	Marginal effects
Independent variables	Coefficient	No byssinosis	Grade 1/2	Grade 1	Grades 2 and 3
Environmental characteristics (C)
Opening	0.951**	− 0.304**	0.141**	0.070**	0.093**
Blow room	1.400**	− 0.487**	0.167**	0.111**	0.208**
Card room	1.420**	− 0.488**	0.174**	0.112**	0.202**
Simplex	1.012*	− 0.336*	0.146*	0.078*	0.111*
Autocone	0.962 *	− 0.317*	0.141*	0.073*	0.101*
Dust level in section	0.342	− 0.092	0.053	0.020	0.019
Temperature in section	0.459**	− 0.124**	0.029**	0.026**	0.026**
Averting activities (A)
Use of mask	0.266	− 0.078	0.042	0.017	0.018
Personal characteristics (G)
Gender (male)	− 0.136	0.038	− 0.021	− 0.008	− 0.008
Age	0.023	− 0.006	0.003	0.001	0.001
Smoking	0.034**	− 0.009**	0.005**	0.001**	0.001**
Marital status (married)	− 0.024	0.006	− 0.003	− 0.001	− 0.001
Pseudo R squared	0.1061