Understanding the socio-economic and sexual behavioural correlates of male circumcision across eleven voluntary medical male circumcision priority countries in southeastern Africa

Table 4 Odds ratio of male circumcision status to sexual behaviour, as a subset analysis of men who reported to have had sex, using all data combined for 11 countries

Characteristic	OR (95 % CI)	p-value
Alcohol consumption last time had sex^a
No	(Referent)
Yes	1.21 (1.12–1.31)	0.000*
Safe Sexual Behaviour^b
Yes	(Referent)
No	1.65 (1.58–1.73)	0.000*
Total lifetime sexual partners^c
1	(Referent)
2	0.76 (0.72–0.81)	0.000*
3+	0.70 (0.67–0.74)	0.000*
No. of wives/partners^d
1	(Referent)
> 1	1.03 (0.94–1.12)	0.573
Age at first sex^e
30+	(Referent)
25–29	0.77 (0.65–0.89)	0.001*
20–24	0.62 (0.54–0.72)	0.000*
15–19	0.59 (0.51–0.68)	0.000*
< 14	0.58 (0.50–0.68)	0.000*
STDs/STIs^f
No	(Referent)
Yes	0.64 (0.58–0.69)	0.000*

Note: Out of 62877 participants, 13267 said they did not have sex. Hence, 49,610 participants were included in the subset analysis on sexual behaviour
*p < 0.05
^a25656 respondents said “don’t know” for alcohol consumption during sex
^b6142 participants did not have responses on safe sexual behaviour
^c2036 participants said “don’t know” when asked for total lifetime partners
^d17304 participants did not have responses for number of wives or partners currently
^e1340 participants said “don’t know” for age at first sex
^f563 participants did not have information on presence of STDs/STIs

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