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Table 5 Factors associated with ever having penetrative sex for girls and boys

From: Illegal yet developmentally normative: a descriptive analysis of young, urban adolescents’ dating and sexual behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa

 

Girls

Boys

 

OR

95% CI

p

OR

95% CI

p

Age

1.354

0.562 – 3.263

0.450

1.331

0.747 – 2.371

0.286

SES (Live in a brick house)

2.592

1.244 – 5.402

0.017

0.831

0.197 – 3.506

0.774

Ever repeated a school year

2.823

0.614 – 12.972

0.155

1.588

0.710 – 3.554

0.222

Never dated

0.330

0.143 – 0.761

0.016

0.162

0.049 – 0.537

0.008

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