TABLE 4—

Multivariate Analysis of Predictors of Lifetime and Past Year Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) (N = 600)

	Lifetime IP V OR (95% CI)	Past Year IP V OR (95% CI)
No. of live-in partners
0 or 1	reference	. . .
≥2	3.08* (1.48, 6.41)
Partner’s job type
No job or retired or student	2.39 (0.76, 7.46)	1.49 (0.56, 3.99)
Owner or CEO	0.78 (0.50, 1.23)	0.73 (0.45, 1.18)
Manager or supervisor	0.40* (0.20, 0.83)	0.35* (0.14, 0.83)
Worker	reference	reference
Migration
Grew up urban/suburban, lives in urban/suburban area	. . .	reference
Grew up urban/suburban, lives in rural area		6.45 (0.76, 54.93)
Grew up rural, lives in urban/suburban area		2.00* (1.26, 3.18)
Grew up rural, lives in rural area		2.13* (1.16, 3.88)
Partner was drunk in past year
Yes	2.15* (1.46, 3.19)	. . .
No	reference
Partner is having extramarital affair(s)
No	reference	reference
Yes	3.00* (1.56, 5.75)	2.45* (1.40, 4.27)
Not sure or do not know	1.29 (0.75, 2.21)	1.52 (0.88, 2.62)
Frequency of quarreling between respondent and partner
Never or rare	reference	reference
Sometimes or often	2.76* (1.87, 4.07)	3.18* (2.08, 4.85)
Respondent refused a job because of partner
Yes	2.09* (1.30, 3.36)	2.10* (1.33, 3.33)
No	reference	reference
Partner refuses to give respondent money
Yes	5.30* (2.25, 12.52)	. . .
No	reference
It is a wife’s obligation to have sexual intercourse with her husband
Disagree	reference	. . .
Agree	1.61* (1.07, 2.41)
Family problems should be discussed only in the family
Disagree	reference	reference
Agree	0.55* (0.36, 0.85)	0.55* (0.36, 0.86)
Wife-beating cultural attitudes scale	1.49* (1.24, 1.79)	1.29* (1.08, 1.53)

Note. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; CEO = chief executive officer. *Statistically significant (P < .05) ORs