Table 3.
Women’s personal network composition and content of communication about HIV/AIDS, odds ratios, multilevel random effect models.
| 1. Network member is married to migrant | 2. Talked about AIDS with network members | 3. Talked about HIV prevention in conversation on AIDS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2A | 2B | 3A | 3B | |||
| Labor migration | ||||||
| Migrant’s wife | 1.50 ** | 1.84 ** | 1.28 | 2.17 ** | 1.52 | |
| Worried of AIDS infection from spouse | 1.08 | 3.31 ** | 2.98 ** | 2.29 ** | 2.11 * | |
| Network member is married to migrant | 1.44 ** | 1.33 † | 1.19 | 1.06 | ||
| Network Resources | ||||||
| Kin | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.94 | ||
| Older than ego | 1.05 | 1.05 | 1.01 | 1.01 | ||
| Younger than ego | 1.11 | 1.11 | 0.98 | 0.98 | ||
| Same religion as ego’s | 1.04 | 1.04 | 1.10 | 1.10 | ||
| Network member would loan money | 1.19 | 1.17 | 1.32 | 1.30 | ||
| Network member works | 1.23 | 1.24 | 1.16 | 1.18 | ||
| Ego’s characteristics | ||||||
| Age (in years) | 0.98 * | 1.04 * | 1.04 * | 1.03 | 1.02 | |
| Number of living children | 0.98 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.060 * | 1.06 | |
| 1–4 years of school | 1.08 | 1.36 | 1.37 | 1.19 | 1.19 | |
| 5 or more years of school | 1.26 † | 2.65 ** | 2.71 ** | 1.74 * | 1.91 * | |
| Currently working | 0.83 † | 2.00 ** | 2.01 ** | 1.72 * | 1.73 * | |
| In polygynous union | 0.86 | 1.23 | 1.23 | 1.5 * | 1.50 * | |
| Resides with parents in-law | 1.03 | 1.06 | 1.06 | 1.04 | 1.04 | |
| Household material possession index | 1.09 † | 1.01 | 1.00 | 1.02 | 1.02 | |
| Thatched roof | 0.86 † | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.94 | 0.94 | |
| Household own cattle | 1.04 | 1.12 | 1.13 | 0.99 | 0.99 | |
| Mainline church | 1.09 | 1.30 | 1.30 | 1.39 | 1.39 | |
| Zoinist/Pentecostal | 0.95 | 1.69 * | 1.69 * | 1.64 * | 1.64 | |
| Had talked to husband about AIDS | 1.15 | 9.77 ** | 9.82 ** | 8.785 ** | 8.81 ** | |
| Migrant’s wife*worried of AIDS infection from spouse | 1.37 | 1.29 | ||||
| Migrant’s wife*network member is married to migrant | 1.21 | 1.32 | ||||
| Generalized Chi-square | 2,922.0 | 1,263.7 | 1,261.00 | 1,390.0 | 1,387.33 | |
| Generalized Chi-square/DF | 0.91 | 0.40 | 0.40 | 0.44 | 0.44 | |
| N | 3,227 | 3,210 | 3,210 | 3,210 | 3,210 | |
Reference categories: Non-migrant’s wife; Does not worry of AIDS infection from husband; Network member is not married to migrant; Non-kin; Same age as ego; Different religion from ego’s; Network member would not loan money; Network member does not work; No education; Not working; In monogamous union; Does not reside with parents in-law; Zinc, polyurethane or block roof; Does not own cattle; No religion; Has not talked to husband about AIDS; Significance level: ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05; † p < 0.10.