Table 5. Characteristics of husbands who changed their non-marital sexual behaviors between 1998 and 2001 (logistic regression).

Variables	n=586
	Coef.	Robust std. err.	Sig.
Individual characteristics
Age	-0.03	0.02
Education
No schooling (ref)	0.00	---
Primary schooling	0.55	0.41
Secondary schooling	1.25	0.49	*
Religion
Catholic (ref)	0.00	---
Protestant	0.37	0.38
Muslim	-0.18	0.53
Other	0.01	0.63
Ownership of economic goods	-0.05	0.10
Housing material
Mud (ref)	0.00	---
Brick	-0.41	0.40
Marital union characteristics
Marital duration (yr)	-0.03	0.02
Polygamous union	0.04	0.39
Child born in last year	0.04	0.28
Number of children	-0.01	0.06
Husband resides at home	-0.63	0.45
Friendships
Best friend different EMSP behavior	0.80	0.30	**
Friend different EMSP behavior	0.71	0.36	*
No discussion of AIDS	0.28	0.29
Region
Balaka-south (ref)	0.00	---
Mchinji-central	-1.70	0.56	**
Rumphi-north	-2.20	0.55	***
Constant	0.42	0.97

Significance:

^*= p<0.05.

^**= p<0.01.

^***= p<0.001