Table 2. Univariate and multivariate analysis of predictors of women’s participation in screening for cervical cancer, Maharashtra, India, October 1999–November 2003.

Characteristics	No. of women eligible to participatea	Analysis
		Univariateb			Multivariateb
Total	100 800 (78.8)
Age group (years)
30–39	55 200 (81.7)	1
40–49	28 245 (78.4)	0.81 (0.8–0.9);	<0.001		0.89 (0.8–0.9);	<0.001
≥50	17 355 (70.3)	0.53 (0.5–0.6);	<0.001		0.70 (0.7–0.8);	<0.001
No. of people in household
1–2	5 386 (67.1)	1
3–4	20 666 (79.6)	1.91 (1.8–2.0);	<0.001		1.12 (1.1–1.2);	0.002
≥5	74 746 (79.5)	1.90 (1.8–2.0);	<0.001		1.05 (0.9–1.1);	0.172
Type of house
Thatched	28 631 (78.4)	1
Tiled	61 774 (79.4)	1.06 (1.0–1.1);	<0.001
Concrete	10 250 (76.7)	0.91 (0.9–1.0);	<0.001
Educational level
None	68 664 (79.7)	1
Primary school	10 714 (86.2)	1.59 (1.5–1.7);	<0.001		1.48 (1.4–1.6);	<0.001
Secondary school	10 825 (87.8)	1.83 (1.7–2.0);	<0.001		1.60 (1.5–1.7);	<0.001
Higher education	6 519 (87.6)	1.80 (1.6–2.0);	<0.001		1.64 (1.5–1.8);	<0.001
Marital status
Married	87 397 (82.9)	1
Unmarried	9 226 (72.7)	0.55 (0.5–0.6);	<0.001		0.78 (0.7–0.8);	<0.001
Parity (no. of pregnancies)
0	6 520 (27.6)	1
1–3	35 161 (83.6)	13.39 (11.2–16.0);	<0.001		2.10 (1.8–2.4);	<0.001
≥4	58 939 (81.9)	11.88 (9.9–14.2);	<0.001		1.95 (1.7–2.3);	<0.001
Contraception used
No	22 493 (73.6)	1
Yes	73 459 (84.6)	1.98 (1.9–2.1);	<0.001		1.63 (1.5–1.7);	<0.001
Study arm
Visual inspection with acetic acid	34 149 (78.3)	1
Cytology	32 136 (79.5)	1.07 (0.8–1.4);	0.66
Human papillomavirus testing	34 515 (78.7)	1.02 (0.7–1.4);	0.90

^a Values in parentheses are the percentage that participated.
^b Values are odds ratio (95% confidence interval); P-value.