Table 2.

Subgroups analyses of prevalence rate of sexual violence among African women

	No. of reports	Prevalen rate (%)	ce Lower Limit (LL)	Upper Limit (UL)	I2(%)	P for heterogeneity	P value* between groups
Primary analysis	9	0.33	0.23	0.42	99.10%	<0.001	0.019
Subgroup analyses
Publication year
-2015	4	0.28	0.16	0.39	98.90%	<0.001	0.628
2015-1019	5	0.37	0.18	0.55	99.40%	<0.001
Study location
East Africa	4	0.41	0.24	0.58	99.30%	<0.001	0.023
Central Africa	2	0.21	-0.02	0.44	99.50%	<0.001
West Africa	3	0.29	0.06	0.52	98.90%	<0.001
Only pregnant/All women
Only pregnant	6	0.42	0.05	0.80	98.20%	<0.001	0.046
All women	3	0.28	0.20	0.36	99.70%	<0.001
Participants age
Only young women (≤ 24)	2	0.23	0.14	0.39	98.70%	<0.001	0.098
All women	7	0.34	0.20	0.48	99.30%	<0.001
Survey method
Questionnaire	7	0.31	0.19	0.42	99.10%	<0.001	0.036
Interview	2	0.40	0.01	0.78	99.50%	<0.001
Studies quality
<9	5	0.19	0.12	0.26	97.80%	<0.001	0.149
>9	4	0.49	0.35	0.63	97.90%	<0.001

^*P values for meta-regression.