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. 2013 Dec 12;179(5):602–612. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwt295

Table 2.

Logistic Regression Odds Ratiosa of Formal Reporting for Women Experiencing Any Violence (Physical or Sexual) by Country, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central Asia and Eastern Europe, 2005–2008

Covariate Latin America and the Caribbean
Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Bolivia (in 2008)
Colombia (in 2010)b
Haiti (in 2005–2006)
Honduras (in 2005–2006)
Azerbaijan (in 2006)
Moldova (in 2005)
Ukraine (in 2007)b
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR CI OR 95% CI
Marital status
 Never married 0.38c 0.25, 0.58 0.75c 0.64, 0.89 1.18 0.22, 6.36 0.16c 0.07, 0.35 0.84 0.38, 1.89 1.19 0.31, 4.55
 Formerly married 1.12 0.76, 1.65 1.50c 1.36, 1.66 1.08 0.21, 5.58 0.77 0.53, 1.10 17.26c,d 5.29, 56.36 1.94e 1.30, 2.91 2.51e 1.25, 5.04
Age, years 1.01 0.99, 1.02 1.02c 1.01, 1.02 1.03 0.96, 1.11 1.01 0.99, 1.02 0.98 0.92, 1.04 1.04c 1.02, 1.06 1.01 0.97, 1.06
Education
 No education 1.19 0.74, 1.91 0.77 0.57, 1.03 1.28 0.26, 6.32 0.78 0.48, 1.29 1.28 0.10, 17.14
 Some secondary or higher education 0.89 0.69, 1.14 0.97 0.88, 1.06 16.85e 2.94, 96.74 0.79 0.51, 1.22 1.75f 0.79, 3.87 0.70g 0.51, 0.98 0.69f 0.35, 1.39
Bottom 40% of wealth 0.83 0.60, 1.14 1.03 0.92, 1.16 0.44 0.16, 1.20 0.95 0.67, 1.35 2.52 0.84, 7.55 0.80 0.52, 1.24 1.37 0.67, 2.81
Urban 1.17 0.86, 1.59 1.43c 1.24, 1.65 0.37 0.09, 1.46 1.12 0.80, 1.55 4.55e 1.44, 14.35 1.03 0.50, 2.12 1.47 0.74, 2.95
Distance to health facilities a big problem 1.09 0.85, 1.39 0.27g 0.09, 0.80 0.82 0.63, 1.08 1.59 0.55, 4.61 1.11 0.74, 1.67
F-statistic, district/regional indicators 2.71 8.84 1.80 1.77 1.00 1.05 0.73
No. of observations 3,521 18,376 1,318 3,682 951 1,514 562

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

a Reference categories are as follows: for marital status, currently married; for education, some or complete primary; for wealth, top 60%; and for distance to health facility, not a problem. All models control for district or regional indicators.

b Distance to health care facility excluded from questionnaire.

c P < 0.001.

d Because of low rates of reporting, never married women were combined with currently married women as the reference category.

e P < 0.01.

f Because of low rates of reporting, no education was combined with some or complete primary education as the reference category.

g P < 0.05.