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Table 3 Posterior odds ratios of the categorical covariates and their 95% credible intervals, variance of the non-linear covariates and the spatial effects at the district-level and model summary statistics

From: Geographical hotspots and correlates of early sexual debut among women in Ghana

 

Model 1

Model 2 POR [95% CI]

Model 3 POR [95% CI]

Model 4 POR [95% CI]

Background characteristics

 Demographic factors

  Marital status

    

  Married

 

1.00

1.00

1.00

  Co-habiting

 

1.55 [1.41–1.70]**

1.49 [1.35–1.63]**

1.43 [1.30–1.57]**

  Not in union

 

1.68 [1.53–1.85]**

1.69 [1.53–1.86]**

1.69 [1.54–1.87]**

 Socioeconomic factors

  Educational attainment

    

  No formal education

  

1.00

1.00

  Middle

  

1.03 [0.93–1.14]

0.97 [0.88–1.08]

  Primary

  

0.88 [0.72–1.08]

0.83 [0.67–1.01]

  Junior High School

  

0.66 [0.59–0.74]**

0.61 [0.54–0.68]**

  Senior High School

  

0.46 [0.39–0.55]**

0.44 [0.37–0.52]**

  Higher

  

0.30 [0.23–0.39]**

0.30 [0.23–0.39]**

  Reads newspaper

    

  At least once a week

  

1.00

1.00

  Less than once a week

  

0.87 [0.67–1.13]

0.86 [0.66–1.12]

  Not at all

  

1.01 [0.81–1.28]

1.00 [0.80–1.27]

  Cannot read

  

1.26 [1.01–1.61]*

1.27 [1.01–1.63]*

 Pregnancy outcome factors

  Ever had miscarriage

   Yes

   

1.36 [1.25–1.49]**

   No

   

1.00

  Ever had abortion

   Yes

   

2.10 [1.91–2.30]**

   No

   

1.00

  Ever had a stillbirth

   Yes

   

1.18 [1.03–1.37]**

   No

   

1.00

Variance of non-linear effects

 Demographic factors

  Current age of respondent

 

1.0224

0.9513

0.9736

  Total number of births

 

0.2220

0.1479

0.1560

 District level variance

  Structured spatial effects (SSE)

0.1039

0.0908

0.1228

0.1114

  Unstructured spatial effects (USE)

0.1305

0.085

0.082

0.0863

  % Change in SSE

    

Summary statistics

  Deviance

23,798.4

21,420.1

21,025.4

20,727.2

  AIC

24,085

21,721.1

21,339.6

21,048.9

  BIC

25,231.6

22,920.6

22,592.0

22,331.2

  GVC

1.1276

1.0156

0.9975

0.9837

  Change in deviance

1039.9

2378.3

394.7

298.2

  Change in AIC

755.0

2363.9

381.5

290.7

  Change in BIC

2311.0

328.6

260.8

  1. Model 0 Deviance = 24,838.3, AIC = 24,840; **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05