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

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for young women (ages 20-29) from five African countries

	Liberia, 2007	Zimbabwe, 2005/06	Mali, 2006	DRC, 2007	Kenya, 2003
Univariate:
Young adult sample (unweighted sample size)	n = 2463	n = 2916	n = 5032	n = 3171	n = 2650
20-24	53.8	53.4	50.5	56.2	52.0
25-29	46.2	46.6	49.5	43.8	48.0
% of young adults ever in union	72.0	89.8	98.7	84.0	81.0
Young adult circumstances of first sex
Premarital first sex	67.5	36.6	23.2	58.5	66.7
First sex in union	32.5	63.4	76.8	41.6	33.3
Community mean lifetime sexual or physical IPV victimization (range)	0.37 (0.0-0.9)	0.27 (0.0-0.8)	0.21 (0.0-0.8)	0.64 (0.0-1.0)	0.43 (0.0-1.0)
Bivariate:
Community mean level lifetime sexual or physical IPV by circumstances of first sex:
Premarital first sex	0.376	0.27	0.237	0.631	0.441
First sex in union	0.385	0.286†	0.206***	0.635	0.406*

Notes: Eligible sample is ever sexually experienced women residing in clusters where 10 or more women answered the domestic violence module. A small number of women were dropped due to cluster size < 10. The weighted percentage of women dropped in each country is: Liberia - 2.2%; Zimbabwe - 2.4%; Mali - 0.5%; DRC - 10.8%; Kenya - 3.6%. All frequencies and means are weighted. Adjusted Wald test used to compare differences in means. † p ≤ 0.10; * p ≤ 0.05; ** p ≤ 0.01; *** p ≤ 0.001.

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