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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2009 Sep 1;21(4):255–288. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.10

Table 8.

Congregation level variance on individual level outcomes (MDICP-3, 2004)

Variable Description Rho Na
Demographic
Household Goods Index: household owns mattress, radio, bicycle, pit latrine 0.12 ** 3101
Education Ever attended secondary school (0–1) 0.31 ** 3101
Value Crops (logged) Logged sum; market value of crops produced last year 0.05 ** 3101
Value Livestock (logged) Logged sum; market value of animals owned by household 0.14 ** 3101
HIV Prevention
A Never married persons; never had sex (0–1) 0.05 ** 615
B Married persons; no extramarital partner in past year (0–1) 0.04 ** 2486
C Sexually active persons; ever used condom (0–1) 0.11 ** 2887
Number of Partners Lifetime number of sexual partners, recoded to 95th percentile (0–20) 0.08 ** 3101
Attitudes
Worried about HIV How worried are you about catching HIV? (0–4) 0.01 3101
Against Premarital sex Reports sex between unmarried persons is never acceptable, even if the couple loves each other 0.02 3101
Divorce for Unfaithfulness Believes it is acceptable for a married woman to leave her spouse if he is unfaithful (0–1) 0.06 ** 3101
**

Notes: p<0.01,

Each calculation uses OLS or logistic () regression with no other controls.

a

The smaller number of observations in this table result from using listwise deletion, so that rho’s are calculated only for observations that have all data points included in the table.