Community social capital on the timing of sexual debut and teen birth in Nicaragua: a multilevel approach

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of female participants aged 15 to 19 years

Variables	Female youth N = 2 766				Female youth who ever had sex N = 1 247
Variables	Mean (SE)	%wt^a	Median time to first sexual encounter (years)	Log rank test (p-value)	Mean (SE)	%wt^a	Median time to first birth (months)	Log rank test (p-value)
Women’s education (years)	7.75 (0.08)				6.90 (0.11)
Low (0 to 7 years)		54.6	16	<0.001		57.6	25	0.02
High (8 to 16 years)		45.3	19			42.3	30
Wealth index quintiles
Poorest		21.0	16	<0.001		26.1	24	0.001
Poorer		16.6	17			20.6	33
Middle		26.5	18			24.2	31
Richer		18.4	17			19.5	34
Richest		17.3	19			9.60	31
Marital status
Unmarried		44.4				36.5	30	0.0001
Married		55.5				63.4	25
Woman’s religion
No religion		15.4	16	<0.001		20.5	25	0.50
Catholics		44.7	18			40.7	26
Protestants		37.5	17			37.3	28
Residence area
Urban		54.9	18	<0.001		48.9	30	0.002
Rural		45.0	17			51.0	24
Age of sexual debut (years)
15 or under						62.5	27	0.80
16–19						37.4	25
Have you ever had abortions?
Yes						14.5	27	0.91
No						85.4	27

Residential stability: stables, the adolescent have lived 10 or more years in the community; unstable, the adolescent have lived less than 10 years in the community
Respondents who belong to other religion were excluded from the analysis
^a%wt: Weighted percentages

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