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Table 5 Parameter estimates from discrete-time hazard models predicting first sexual intercourse and first marriage, JLFSY 2005–2010

From: Life expectations in early adolescence and the timing of first sex and marriage: evidence from a longitudinal survey in Ethiopia

 

First sex males

First sex females

First marriage females

Had first sex in a prior year

  

2.764***

Life expectations (age 13–17)

 Career expectations

− 0.143**

− 0.363***

 

 Expected age at marriage

  

− 0.049

 Personal autonomy

0.165

− 0.067

− 0.288

 Gender equality

0.136

0.014

0.210

School participation

 In school (time varying)

− 5.002**

− 3.517**

− 0.681*

 Membership in youth clubs (age 13–17)

0.092

0.025

0.139

Family and community environment (age13–17)

 Religiosity

− 0.001

0.036

0.157

 Parents’ desired age of daughter’s marriage

  

− 0.078**

 Parents’ highest year of schooling

0.043***

− 0.025

− 0.033

 Household wealth

− 0.002

− 0.216

0.042

 Female headed house

0.610**

− 0.301

− 0.588**

 City

1.639***

1.115**

− 0.581

 Town

1.210**

0.790*

0.006

 Rural (ref.)

   

Duration dependence

 Age (time varying)

0.302***

0.276***

0.260***

 Age × in school interaction

0.275**

0.196***

 

 Number of life years

7339

5314

5504

 Number of observations

870

651

651

 Pseudo R2

0.208

0.139

0.282

  1. Robust standard errors adjusted for clustering at the community level, sample weights applied
  2. *P < 0.10, **P < 0.05, ***P < 0.01