Table 2.

Effects of Marital Aspirations on Sexual Debut, Sex Last Year, and Total Number of Partners Among Never-Married Women

	Ever Had Sex (Logistic Regression)						Sex Last Year (Logistic Regression)						No. of Partners (Negative Binomial Model)
	Model 1 (n = 238)		Model 2 (n = 238)		Model 3 (n = 233)		Model 1 (n = 236)		Model 2 (n = 236)		Model 3 (n = 231)		Model 1 (n = 239)		Model 2 (n = 239)		Model 3 (n = 234)
Dependent variable	OR	Sig.	OR	Sig.	OR	Sig.	OR	Sig.	OR	Sig.	OR	Sig.	IRR	Sig.	IRR	Sig.	IRR	Sig.
Desired time until marriage
Never want to marry	1.40		1.37		1.01		3.45		3.43		2.47		1.79		1.77		1.33
Marry in >5 years (ref)	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Marry in 4 – 5 years	3.02	**	2.65	*	2.43	*	5.39	**	5.10	*	4.69	*	2.01	*	1.83		1.71
Marry in 2 – 3 years	3.36	**	2.83	*	1.85		5.61	**	5.20	**	3.69	*	3.04	***	2.70	**	1.89	*
Marry in 0 – 1 year	11.48	***	8.42	***	4.23	*	14.79	***	12.91	***	7.74	**	5.62	***	4.64	***	2.57	**
Age (years)			1.19	*	1.13				1.07		1.02				1.10		1.10
Educational attainment
Primary school or less (ref)					1.00						1.00						1.00
Some secondary					1.93						1.04						1.21
Currently in school					0.39	**					0.51						0.59	*
Wealth index
Poor (ref)					1.00						1.00						1.00
Middle					0.70						1.00						0.80
Rich					0.57						0.94						0.87
Region
South (ref)					1.00						1.00						1.00
Central					1.38						1.35						0.89
North					0.64						0.92						0.38	***
Alphaa													0.36	*	0.34	*	0.12

OR: odds ratio; IRR: incidence rate ratio.

^aLikelihood ratio test of alpha = 0.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.