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Table 2 Fixed- and random-intercept parts of multilevel logistic regression of childhood sexual abuse

From: Social disorganization and history of child sexual abuse against girls in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis

 

Empty modela

Full modelb

 

Measures of association

   

Individual-level

 

OR (95% CI)

p-value

Country

   

  Liberia

 

0.45 (0.16, 1.33)

0.149

  Uganda

 

0.44 (0.21, 0.90)

0.025

  Nigeria

 

1 (reference)

 

  Ghana

 

1.62 (0.96, 2.74)

0.068

  Zimbabwe

 

1.71 (1.14, 2.57)

0.009

  Zambia

 

2.48 (1.53, 4.02)

0.001

Marital Status

   

  Never married

 

1 (reference)

 

  Currently married

 

2.03 (1.29, 3.19)

0.002

  Formerly married

 

5.97 (2.55, 13.94)

0.001

Education

   

  No education

 

0.16 (0.07, 0.39)

0.001

  Primary

 

0.84 (0.58, 1.21)

0.349

  Secondary or higher

 

1 (reference)

 

Occupation

   

  Not working

 

1 (reference)

 

  Working

 

2.05 (1.48, 2.83)

0.001

Wealth status

   

  Poorest

 

1.50 (0.70, 3.23)

0.297

  Poorer

 

1.00 (0.51, 1.96)

0.998

  Middle

 

0.82 (0.44, 1.55)

0.548

  Richer

 

1.07 (0.61, 1.89)

0.807

  Richest

 

1 (reference)

 

Community-level

   

  Average household size

 

0.94 (0.88, 1.01)

0.091

  Ethnic diversity

 

0.90 (0.57, 1.40)

0.629

Poverty rate

 

0.96 (0.61, 1.51)

0.861

Family disruption

 

1.57 (1.14, 2.16)

0.006

Urban (versus rural)

 

0.82 (0.51, 1.32)

0.413

Residential instability

 

1 (reference)

 

Measures of variation

   

Community-level

   

  Variance (SE)

0.74 (0.31)

0.33 (0.27)

 

  ICC (%)

18.3

9.1

 

  Explained variation (%)

Reference

54.1

 
  1. aEmpty model – no explanatory variables.
  2. bFull model 2 – Adjusted for control-, individual- and community-level factors.
  3. Abbreviations: OR odds ratio, CI confidence intervals, SE standard error, ICC intra-community correlation.
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