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Individual compositional and community contextual factors associated with early sexual debut among ever or currently marriage Nigeria women identified by multivariable multilevel logistic regressions‡ |
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| Empty model |
Individual variables |
Individual and community variables |
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| Model 1 |
Model 2 |
Model 3 |
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| OR (95% CI) |
OR (95% CI) |
OR (95% CI) |
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| Fixed effects |
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| Individual characteristics |
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| Age (completed years) |
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| 15 – 24 |
1 |
1 |
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| 25 – 34 |
1.02 (0.87, 1.21) |
1.05 (0.89, 1.24) |
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| 35+ |
1.19 (1.02, 1.41)* |
1.24 (1.05, 1.47)** |
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| Education |
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| No education |
1 |
1 |
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| Primary |
0.69 (0.59, 0.80)*** |
0.74 (0.62, 0.88)*** |
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| Secondary or higher |
0.26 (0.22, 0.70)*** |
0.30 (0.25, 0.36)*** |
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| Ethnicity |
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| Hausa/Fulani |
1 |
1 |
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| Igbo |
0.35 (0.23, 0.52)*** |
0.53 (0.34, 0.80)** |
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| Yoruba |
0.22 (0.14, 0.33)*** |
0.32 (0.21, 0.48)*** |
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| Others |
0.56 (0.45, 0.70)*** |
0.63 (0.51, 0.78)*** |
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| Religion |
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| Islam |
1 |
1 |
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| Christian |
0.77 (0.61, 0.96)* |
0.81 (0.64, 1.02) |
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| Others |
1.02 (0.65, 1.59) |
0.92 (0.60, 1.45) |
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| Community characteristics |
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| Type of residence |
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| Urban |
1.10 (0.95, 1.25) |
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| Rural |
1 |
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| Community ethnic diversity† |
0.98 (0.95, 1.01) |
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| Community median age of marriage |
0.77 (0.77, 0.81)*** |
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| Community median spousal age gap |
1.01 (0.98, 1.05) |
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| Geopolitical region |
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| North-central |
0.44 (0.31, 0.64)*** |
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| North-east |
0.40 (0.24, 0.66)*** |
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| North-west |
0.48 (0.30, 0.77)** |
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| South-east |
0.43 (0.24, 0.75)** |
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| South-south |
1 |
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| South-west |
0.57 (0.34, 0.96)* |
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| Constant |
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| Random effects |
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| State-level |
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| Variance (SE) |
1.058 (0.289)*** |
0.220 (0.084)** |
0.057 (0.03) |
| VPC (%) |
22.8 |
6.1 |
1.7 |
| Explained variation (%) |
Reference |
79.2 |
94.6 |
| Community-level |
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| Variance (SE) |
0.280 (0.057)*** |
0.104 (0.039)** |
0.021 (0.017) |
| VPC (%) |
6.0 |
2.9 |
0.6 |
| Explained variation (%) |
Reference |
62.8 |
92.5 |
| Model fit statistics |
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| DIC |
6543 |
6255 |
6219 |
| Sample size |
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| State-level |
36 |
36 |
36 |
| Community-level |
177 |
177 |
177 |
| Individual-level |
5531 |
5508 |
5508 |
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Abbreviations: OR – Odds ratio, CI – Confidence interval, VPC – Variance Partition Coefficient, SE – Standard error, DIC – Deviance information criterion †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 *p < .05, **p < .01, and ***p < .001 ‡Data source: 2003 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey | |||
Uthman International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:27 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-27 |
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