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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Fam Plann. 2009 Dec;40(4):261–276. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2009.00210.x

Table 3.

Odds ratios for MDICP survey respondents’ likelihood of reporting that they want to have another child after they have received a positive HIV-test result, using difference-in-differences (DID) models with and without propensity score matching, Malawi

Desire for another child DID logistic regressiona (n) DID with propensity score matchingb (n)
All respondents
 Control observations 1.000 (65) 1.000 (65)
 Treatment observations 0.321** (1,456) 0.389** (1,456)
Women
 Control observations 1.000 (49) 1.000 (49)
 Treatment observations 0.457 (850) 0.489 (850)
Men
 Control observations 1.000 (16) 1.000 (16)
 Treatment observations 0.117* (606) 0.185* (606)
*

Difference significant p ≤ 0.05;

**

p ≤ 0.01.

a

Adjusts for differences in 2001, time period, age (2001 (2006), marital status (2001 (2006), living children (2001 (2006), sex, education, and region.

b

Propensity scores matched on variables listed in footnote ain 2001 and on having a metal roof, age at first sex, number of times married, likelihood of being infected, being in a polygamous marriage, having had extramarital partners, suspecting spouse has had extramarital partners, and having had nonmarital partner(s) in past year.