Table 7.

Binary logistic regression of sexual activity against its possible predictors (n=400)

Variables	Categories of variable	P-value	Odds ratio	95% confidence intervals
				Lower	Upper
Sex	Male (reference)	0.129	0.620	0.335	1.149
Ethnicity	Hausa (reference)	0.020
	Yoruba	0.978	0.969	0.106	8.852
	Ibo	0.287	3.613	0.339	38.521
Number of television viewing hours	Above the mean (reference)	0.445	0.774	0.400	1.496
Age	≥25 years (reference)	0.142	0.575	0.275	1.204
Level in school*	Upper level (reference)	0.097	1.825	0.898	3.709
Frequency of internet use†	Rarely (reference)	0.115
	Often	0.094	2.095	0.883	4.974
	Occasionally	0.757	1.158	0.456	2.942
Accessing the Internet for sexual material/movies is acceptable to me	Agree (reference)	<0.001
	Disagree	<0.001‡	0.043	0.016	0.122
	Undecided	0.050	0.279	0.078	0.998
Marital status	Ever married (reference)	0.021‡	0.075	0.008	0.679

Notes:

^*Lower level includes first-year to third-year students; upper level includes fourth-year and fifth-year students;

^†often indicates daily to weekly use; occasionally indicates once or twice a month; and rarely indicates once in two to three months;

^‡statistically significant.

Abbreviation: n, number.