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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2009 May 1;71(2):396–416. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00607.x

Table 5.

Effects of Type of Partnership on Sexual Behaviors Within Last Two Partnerships (Men)

Usually Use Condom
(Logistic Regression)
Frequent Sex
(Logistic regression)
Had Other Partners
(Logistic Regression)
Suspected Partner
(Logistic Regression)
Model 1
(n = 525)
Model 2
(n = 525)
Model 3
(n = 497)
Model 1
(n = 511)
Model 2
(n = 511)
Model 3
(n = 483)
Model 1
(n = 531)
Model 2
(n = 531)
Model 3
(n = 503)
Model 1
(n = 416)
Model 2
(n = 416)
Model 3
(n = 399)
Dependent Variable OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig. OR Sig.
Type of partnership
 Fiancé(e) (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Spouse 0.08 *** 0.05 *** 0.08 *** 9.41 *** 10.97 *** 7.25 *** 0.44 * 0.39 * 0.33 * 0.93 0.80 0.68
 Steady 0.68 0.79 0.88 2.19 * 2.08 1.75 0.70 0.73 0.68 2.93 * 3.11 * 3.30 *
 Casual 0.57 0.66 0.71 1.98 1.87 1.98 0.58 0.61 0.56 4.46 ** 4.81 ** 5.55 **
Age 1.24 *** 1.20 ** 0.93 0.93 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08
Educational attainment
 Primary school or less (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Some secondary 1.64 0.88 0.92 0.72
Currently in school 0.87 0.68 1.01 0.81
Wealth index
 Poor (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Middle 1.57 0.89 0.86 1.08
 Rich 1.22 1.05 0.69 0.90
Region
 South (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Central 0.83 0.64 0.90 0.78
 North 1.10 0.32 *** 1.13 1.54

Note: All regressions are limited to male respondents who report having ever had sex. Because each respondent was permitted to report up to two sexual partners, we control for clustering by respondent.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.