Table 2 Associations between selected variables and youths' abstinence behavior by gender
Male N = 1653 | Female N = 1388§ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary abstinence N = 527 | Secondary abstinence N = 84† | Abstinence behavior N = 611 | Primary abstinence N = 463 | Secondary abstinence N = 53† | Abstinence behavior N = 516 | |
Percentages of total | 31.9 | 7.5 | 37.0 | 33.5 | 5.7 | 37.2 |
Socio-demographic characteristics | ||||||
Age groups | ||||||
15–16 | 47.2** | 7.1 | 41.8** | 56.4** | 3.8* | 51.0** |
17–18 | 27.7** | 14.3 | 25.9* | 28.3* | 13.2* | 26.6 |
19–20 | 15.2** | 33.3 | 17.6** | 8.9** | 41.5* | 12.0** |
21–22 | 6.5** | 20.2 | 8.3** | 1.7** | 25.0* | 4.3** |
23–24 | 3.4** | 24.7 | 6.4** | 4.8** | 17.3 | 6.0** |
Highest Education Level | ||||||
No education | 28.8** | 19.0 | 27.6** | 36.5** | 30.2 | 35.9 |
Primary education | 28.4* | 15.5 | 26.6 | 27.4* | 26.4 | 27.3 |
Secondary | 41.0** | 58.3 | 43.4 | 32.6* | 43.4 | 33.7 |
Higher | 1.7** | 7.1 | 2.5** | 3.5 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
Religion | ||||||
Roman Catholics | 22.8 | 19.0 | 22.3 | 24.6** | 25.0 | 24.8 |
Protestants | 12.0 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 13.0 | 21.2 | 14.0 |
Other Christians | 12.7 | 23.8** | 14.2* | 13.4 | 32.1** | 15.1 |
Muslim | 36.6 | 35.7 | 36.5** | 32.2** | 13.5* | 30.4 |
Others †† | 16.1* | 9.5 | 15.2** | 16.6 | 7.5 | 15.5 |
Place of residence | ||||||
Urban | 44.0 | 56.0 | 45.7 | 60.0* | 58.5 | 59.9** |
Rural | 56.0 | 44.0 | 54.3 | 40.0 | 41.5 | 40.1 |
Region of residence | ||||||
Abidjan town | 20.7* | 32.1 | 22.2 | 32.4 | 35.8* | 32.8 |
Centre | 8.5 | 7.1 | 8.3** | 6.9** | 18.9 | 8.1** |
Centre-East | 3.2* | 4.8 | 3.3* | 1.9 | 0.0 | 1.7 |
Centre-North | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 5.0 |
Centre-West | 13.1 | 9.4 | 12.4 | 9.7 | 3.8 | 9.1 |
North | 7.0 | 2.4 | 6.2 | 6.5** | 1.9 | 6.0 |
North-East | 4.9* | 1.2 | 4.4 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 |
North-West | 3.0 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
West | 5.1 | 3.6 | 4.9* | 5.4 | 0.0 | 5.0 |
South | 21.8 | 28.6* | 22.6* | 22.2 | 24.5 | 22.7 |
South-West | 8.2 | 7.1 | 8.0 | 4.3 | 7.7 | 4.7 |
Regular exposure to mass media ††† | 88.4** | 92.9 | 89.2** | 86.8 | 94.3 | 87.6 |
Ideational determinants | 9.5** | 9.0 | 9.6** | 9.8 | 30.0 | 12.0 |
Respondent knows someone who has AIDS or has died of AIDS | 9.2** | 2.5 | 8.4** | 7.8** | 1.9 | 7.2** |
Most young men wait for sex until marriage | 12.3** | 9.1* | 11.9* | 11.9** | 2.0 | 10.8* |
Most unmarried sexually active men have only one partner | 27.3** | 13.7 | 25.4** | 34.8** | 13.5* | 32.1** |
Most married men only have sex with their wives | 15.1** | 6.2 | 13.8** | 17.1** | 3.8 | 15.3** |
Most young women wait for sex until marriage | 16.6** | 10.0 | 15.6** | 22.7** | 12.8 | 21.5** |
Most unmarried sexually active women have only one partner | 50.4** | 35.1 | 48.4** | 67.9** | 37.8 | 64.4** |
Most married women only have sex with their husbands | ||||||
HIV/AIDS-related knowledge | ||||||
HIV/AIDS-related knowledge of preventive methods | 74.1 | 82.5 | 75.3* | 76.4 | 84.6 | 77.3 |
Abstain from sexual intercourse | 80.2 | 83.5 | 80.7 | 72.9** | 70.6 | 72.6** |
Limit sexual intercourse to one uninfected partner with no other partners | 73.1 | 81.3 | 74.4* | 61.2** | 92.2 | 64.8** |
Use of condoms | ||||||
Comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission | 82.5** | 94.6 | 84.4 | 78.1** | 91.7 | 79.8 |
A healthy-looking person can have AIDS virus | 52.5 | 60 | 53.7* | 50.7 | 65.4 | 52.4 |
AIDS cannot be transmitted by mosquito bites | 69.9 | 84.4* | 71.8 | 73.0* | 82.7* | 74.2* |
A person cannot become infected by sharing food with a person who has AIDS | 9.5** | 9.0 | 9.6** | 9.8 | 30.0 | 12.0 |