Table 2.

Age-adjusted odds ratios (AORs) for men who reported having had multiple sex partners in the 12 months prior to the survey, by country, according to marital status (reference category = never married)

Country	Omnibus p-value	Monogamously married	Unmarried cohabiting	Formerly married a
Burkina Faso	0.0000	0.45*	1.09	1.79
Cameroon	0.0031	1.05	b	1.54*
Côte d'Ivoire	0.0000	0.60*	1.47*	1.22
Ethiopia	0.8910	0.71	1.27	0.76
Ghana	0.0202	0.85	1.59	1.28
Guinea	0.0011	0.51*	1.38	0.48
Kenya	0.0000	0.94	1.44	3.58*
Lesotho	0.0782	0.78	3.66	0.92
Malawi	0.5536	0.93	0.98	1.60
Mali	0.0002	0.36*	1.18	0.80
Niger	0.0009	0.24*	b	0.83
Rwanda	0.0000	0.98	4.12*	3.09
Senegal	0.0000	0.85	4.04*	1.47
Tanzania	0.0000	1.35*c	b	2.73*
Zambia	0.0394	1.03	2.48	2.00*

^*Significant at p ≤ 0.05.

^a“Formerly married” category includes those who are divorced, separated, or widowed.

^bUnmarried cohabiting men are grouped with married men in Cameroon, Niger, and Tanzania.

^cAll of the other statistically significant AORs in this table are consistent with the “exposure to social controls” hypothesis; this is the only statistically significant AOR consistent with the “authority over wives” hypothesis.