Table 2.
Multivariate pupil level predictors of sexual experience among 15 and 16 year old pupils (N = 4925) in 24 Scottish schools (the results that are statistically significant are in bold
| Covariate | Sub-group | BOYS | GIRLS | ||||
| Odds ratio | (95% CI) | Odds ratio | (95% CI) | ||||
| Age in months at follow-up interview | 1.05 | 1.02 | 1.08 | 1.07 | 1.04 | 1.09 | |
| Adults pupil lives with | Mum only | 1.30 | 0.98 | 1.72 | 1.51 | 1.20 | 1.89 |
| Dad only | 1.47 | 0.87 | 2.48 | 2.07 | 1.16 | 3.71 | |
| Other | 4.21 | 1.17 | 15.12 | 1.79 | 0.59 | 5.47 | |
| Both parents | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Parental monitoring | High | 0.73 | 0.59 | 0.91 | 0.66 | 0.54 | 0.80 |
| Low | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Spending money | High | 1.65 | 1.33 | 2.04 | 1.45 | 1.20 | 1.77 |
| Missing | 1.08 | 0.59 | 1.97 | 1.41 | 0.84 | 2.36 | |
| Low | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Ethnic group | Indian subcontinent | 0.63 | 0.25 | 1.57 | 0.26 | 0.09 | 0.78 |
| Missing | 1.04 | 0.45 | 2.41 | 0.65 | 0.17 | 2.48 | |
| Other | 0.52 | 0.24 | 1.14 | 0.57 | 0.28 | 1.14 | |
| White | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Religious belief | Very religious | 0.30 | 0.07 | 1.23 | 0.24 | 0.05 | 1.09 |
| Religious | 0.91 | 0.57 | 1.44 | 0.87 | 0.61 | 1.26 | |
| not religious | 1.14 | 0.84 | 1.54 | 1.19 | 0.93 | 1.53 | |
| not at all religious | 1.18 | 0.89 | 1.57 | 1.58 | 1.23 | 2.03 | |
| Unsure | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Mother's age | Missing | 1.05 | 0.79 | 1.40 | 0.85 | 0.57 | 1.27 |
| Under 40 | 1.52 | 1.19 | 1.94 | 1.40 | 1.14 | 1.73 | |
| 40/over 40' | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Attitude to school (higher score:poorer attitude) | 1.23 | 1.08 | 1.41 | 1.41 | 1.23 | 1.62 | |
| Future live with partner | Very unlikely | 1.00 | 0.55 | 1.82 | 0.84 | 0.57 | 1.24 |
| Unlikely | 1.11 | 0.80 | 1.53 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 1.22 | |
| Likely | 1.54 | 1.16 | 2.05 | 1.32 | 0.99 | 1.76 | |
| Very likely | 2.13 | 1.30 | 3.50 | 1.50 | 0.75 | 2.99 | |
| Unsure | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Future college | Very unlikely | 2.73 | 1.50 | 4.99 | 0.86 | 0.36 | 2.06 |
| Unlikely | 1.32 | 0.85 | 2.06 | 0.57 | 0.34 | 0.94 | |
| Likely | 0.94 | 0.73 | 1.22 | 0.81 | 0.62 | 1.05 | |
| Very likely | 0.83 | 0.59 | 1.17 | 0.73 | 0.53 | 0.99 | |
| Unsure | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Future steady relationship | Very unlikely | 1.12 | 0.47 | 2.67 | 0.53 | 0.19 | 1.46 |
| Unlikely | 1.23 | 0.67 | 2.24 | 0.94 | 0.60 | 1.49 | |
| Likely | 1.45 | 1.13 | 1.85 | 1.50 | 1.22 | 1.85 | |
| Very likely | 2.74 | 1.77 | 4.24 | 2.12 | 1.38 | 3.26 | |
| Unsure | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Friends left school | Missing | 1.70 | 0.77 | 3.74 | 0.91 | 0.35 | 2.38 |
| Most or all | 2.31 | 0.90 | 5.94 | 3.15 | 1.57 | 6.34 | |
| Half | 1.86 | 0.88 | 3.92 | 1.84 | 1.02 | 3.31 | |
| a few | 1.46 | 1.17 | 1.83 | 1.77 | 1.45 | 2.18 | |
| None | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Proportion of friends perceived to be having sex | Missing | 0.62 | 0.41 | 0.93 | 0.49 | 0.32 | 0.76 |
| None | 0.33 | 0.13 | 0.84 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.25 | |
| Very few | 0.50 | 0.35 | 0.71 | 0.61 | 0.42 | 0.88 | |
| About a quarter | 0.84 | 0.58 | 1.21 | 0.67 | 0.48 | 0.93 | |
| Less than half | 0.88 | 0.64 | 1.21 | 0.85 | 0.64 | 1.13 | |
| Most of them | 1.44 | 1.06 | 1.94 | 1.34 | 1.05 | 1.72 | |
| all of them | 1.12 | 0.40 | 3.11 | 4.82 | 1.46 | 15.95 | |
| Half | 1 | 1 | |||||