Table 1 |
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Variables, measures, and coding |
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| Variable |
Measure |
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| Dependent variable |
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| Early sexual debut |
Coital debut at 15 years or younger (yes = 1, no = 0) |
| Individual characteristics |
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| Age |
Completed years [1) 15–24, 2) 25–34, 3) 35+] |
| Education |
Highest level of education [1) No education, 2) primary, 3) secondary or higher] |
| Ethnicity |
Ethnicity [1) Hausa or Fulani, 2) Igbo, 3) Yoruba, 4) Others] |
| Religion |
Religion affiliation [1) Islam, 2) Catholic, Protestant, Other Christian, 3) traditionalist,
others] |
| Community characteristics |
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| Type of residence |
Cluster classification [1) rural or remote, 2) urban] |
| Community ethnic diversity |
Number of ethnic group in a community, represents the likelihood that two persons,
chosen at random from the same area, belong to different ethnic group. |
| Community median age of marriage |
Median age of women at first marriage in community |
| Community median spousal age gap |
Median spousal age gap in community |
| Region |
The six geopolitical regions [1) north-central, 2) north-east, 3) north-west, 4) south-east,
5) south-south, 6) south-west] |
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Uthman International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:27 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-27 |
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