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Bivariate association between early sexual debut and selected individual compositional and community contextual characteristics of ever or currently married Nigerian women, 2003* |
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| Early sexual debut |
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| No [%(n)] |
Yes [%(n)] |
p-value |
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| Individual characteristics |
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| Age (completed years) |
.001 |
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| 15 – 24 |
46.6 (640) |
53.4 (735) |
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| 25 – 34 |
56.0 (1159) |
44.0 (910) |
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| 35+ |
50.6 (1057) |
49.4 (1030) |
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| Education |
.001 |
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| No education |
35.3 (1013) |
64.7 (1856) |
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| Primary |
57.1 (724) |
42.9 (543) |
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| Secondary or higher |
80.2 (1119) |
19.8 (276) |
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| Ethnicity |
.001 |
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| Hausa/Fulani |
29.2 (606) |
70.8 (1467) |
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| Igbo |
76.7 (578) |
23.3 (176) |
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| Yoruba |
85.5 (541) |
14.5 (92) |
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| Others |
54.7 (1122) |
45.3 (930) |
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| Religion |
.001 |
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| Christian |
69.9 (1593) |
38.1 (686) |
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| Islam |
38.4 (1202) |
61.6 (1932) |
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| Others |
52.6 (60) |
47.4 (54) |
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| Community characteristics |
.001 |
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| Type of residence |
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| Urban |
60.7 (1247) |
39.3 (807) |
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| Rural |
46.3 (1609) |
53.7 (1868) |
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| Community ethnic diversity†, Mean (SD) |
3.5 (2.6) |
3.9 (2.5) |
.001 |
| Community median age of marriage, Mean (SD) |
17.5 (2.5) |
15.4 (1.9) |
.001 |
| Community median spousal age gap, Mean (SD) |
9.3 (2.3) |
10.2 (1.8) |
.001 |
| Geopolitical region |
.001 |
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| North-central |
60.4 (553) |
39.6 (363) |
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| North-east |
38.1 (523) |
61.9 (750) |
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| North-west |
32.0 (523) |
67.8 (1101) |
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| South-east |
78.5 (442) |
21.5 (121) |
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| South-south |
58.8 (314) |
41.2 (220) |
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| South-west |
82.4 (562) |
17.6 (120) |
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Chi-squared test was used for categorical data, and Mann-Whitney test continuous data for the bivariate analysis. For continuous variables, results are shown as mean and standard deviation. †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 Data source – 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Survey. Sample size – 5531 | |||
Uthman International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:27 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-27 |
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