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Table 4 Association between multiple high-risk fertility behaviours and sexual violence among women in sub-Saharan Africa

From: Association between sexual violence and multiple high-risk fertility behaviours among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa

Variable

Model O

Model I

AOR [95% CI]

Model II

AOR [95% CI]

Model III

AOR [95% CI]

Fixed effect model

Sexual violence

  No

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Yes

 

1.14** [1.05, 1.25]

 

1.11* [1.02, 1.21]

Women’s age

  15–24

 

1.00

 

1.00

  25–29

 

3.49*** [3.06, 3.97]

 

3.60*** [3.16, 4.11]

  30–34

 

5.25*** [4.63, 5.95]

 

5.58*** [4.92, 6.34]

  35–39

 

34.95*** [31.14, 39.23]

 

38.33*** [34.09, 43.10]

  40–44

 

88.96*** [78.60, 100.68]

 

101.6*** [89.66, 115.20]

  45–49

 

107.5*** [94.04, 122.85]

 

125.8*** [109.74, 144.14]

Women’s educational level

  No education

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Primary

 

0.77*** [0.73, 0.82]

 

0.80*** [0.75, 0.85]

  Secondary

 

0.46*** [0.42, 0.51]

 

0.59*** [0.54, 0.65]

  Higher

 

0.29*** [0.24, 0.34]

 

0.42*** [0.35, 0.51]

Marital status

  Married

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Cohabiting

 

1.00 [0.93, 1.07]

 

0.98 [0.91, 1.06]

Current working status

  Not working

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Working

 

0.99 [0.93, 1.05]

 

0.92** [0.86, 0.98]

Exposed to listening to radio

  No

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Yes

 

0.93* [0.88, 0.99]

 

0.96 [0.90, 1.02]

Exposed to watching television

  No

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Yes

 

0.81*** [0.76, 0.86]

 

1.00 [0.93, 1.07]

Exposed to reading newspaper

  No

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Yes

 

0.72*** [0.66, 0.79]

 

0.79*** [0.72, 0.87]

Age at first sex

  20 years and above

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Below 20 years

 

1.07* [1.00, 1.15]

 

1.02 [0.95, 1.09]

Age at first union

  Below 15 years

 

1.00

 

1.00

  15–17 years

 

0.95 [0.87, 1.05]

 

0.95 [0.87, 1.04]

  18 years and above

 

0.79*** [0.72, 0.86]

 

0.80*** [0.73, 0.87]

Contraceptive use

  No

 

1.00

 

1.00

  Yes

 

1.06 [0.99, 1.12]

 

1.11*** [1.05, 1.19]

Sex of household head

  Male

  

1.00

1.00

  Female

  

0.91*** [0.86, 0.96]

0.80*** [0.75, 0.86]

Wealth index

  Poorest

  

1.00

1.00

  Poorer

  

0.90*** [0.84, 0.95]

0.87*** [0.80, 0.94]

  Middle

  

0.90** [0.85, 0.96]

0.83*** [0.76, 0.90]

  Richer

  

0.77*** [0.72, 0.83]

0.69*** [0.63, 0.76]

  Richest

  

0.55*** [0.51, 0.61]

0.49*** [0.44, 0.55]

Place of residence

  Urban

  

1.00

1.00

  Rural

  

1.20*** [1.13, 1.28]

1.12** [1.04, 1.21]

Subregions

  Southern

  

1.00

1.00

  Central

  

2.59*** [2.12, 3.17]

5.34*** [4.23, 6.74]

  Eastern

  

2.49*** [2.05, 3.03]

4.36*** [3.47, 5.48]

  Western

  

2.42*** [1.99, 2.95]

3.92*** [3.11, 4.93]

Random effect model

  PSU variance (95% CI)

0.406 [0.320, 0.516]

0.588 [0.473, 0.732]

0.368 [0.291, 0.466]

0.551 [0.441, 0.689]

  ICC

0.110

0.152

0.101

0.143

  Wald chi-square

Reference

12241.67 (< 0.001)

508.94 (< 0.001)

12,566.10 (< 0.001)

Model fitness

  Log-likelihood

-173971.44

-116926.66

-171933.35

-115356.12

  AIC

347946.9

233893.3

343888.7

230770.2

  N

88011

88011

88011

88011

  Number of clusters

1395

1395

1395

1395

  1. aOR Adjusted odds ratios, CI Confidence Interval
  2. 1.00 Reference category, PSU Primary Sampling Unit, ICC Intra-Class Correlation Coefficient, AIC Akaike’s Information Criterion
  3. *p < 0.05
  4. **p < 0.01
  5. ***p < 0.001