Community-level intimate partner violence and the circumstances of first sex among young women from five African countries

Table 2 Multivariate logistic regression odds ratios (confidence intervals) examining the effect of community mean sexual or physical IPV on whether first sex was premarital or in union among young women (ages 20-29) by country

	Premarital vs. First sex in union Model 1^a (full sample)	Premarital vs. first sex in union Model 2^b (IPV sample; currently in union)	Premarital vs. first sex in union Model 3^c (IPV sample; currently in union)
Liberia, 2007
Community mean IPV	0.55 (0.30-1.00)*	0.59 (0.29-1.19)	0.47 (0.22-1.01) †
Own IPV experience (Yes vs. no)	NA	NA	1.25 (0.87-1.79)
Zimbabwe, 2005/06
Community mean IPV	0.65 (0.34-1.23)	1.24 (0.62-2.49)	1.08 (0.52-2.27)
Own IPV experience (Yes vs. no)	NA	NA	1.14 (0.87-1.48)
Mali, 2006
Community mean IPV	4.50 (2.29-8.84)***	5.60 (2.62-11.97)***	4.30 (1.93-9.56)***
Own IPV experience (Yes vs. no)	NA	NA	1.29 (0.92-1.79)
DRC, 2007
Community mean IPV	1.01 (0.54-1.89)	0.98 (0.43-2.21)	0.88 (0.37-2.09)
Own IPV experience (Yes vs. no)	NA	NA	1.11 (0.75-1.64)
Kenya, 2003
Community mean IPV	1.82 (1.05-3.15)*	2.82 (1.49-5.32)***	2.30 (1.15-4.61)*
Own IPV experience (Yes vs. no)	NA	NA	1.24 (0.97-1.58)†

Notes: Reference group is first sex in union. All models controlled for age, urban residence, educational status, wealth quintile and exposure to the radio and television. † p ≤ 0.10; * p ≤ 0.05; ** p ≤ 0.01; *** p ≤ 0.001. Models 2 and 3 use domestic violence weights including only women currently in union who responded to the question on IPV experience. Unweighted sample sizes for IPV samples: Liberia - 1341; Zimbabwe - 2068; Mali - 3772; DRC - 1036; Kenya - 1776. ^aModel 1, full sample; ^bModels 2 with reduced domestic violence sample; ^cModel 3 with reduced domestic violence sample and inclusion of women's own IPV experience.

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