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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Drug Policy. 2013 Dec 22;25(3):533–542. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.12.002

Table 5.

(a) Multivariable associations between each built environment indicator (place of solicitation) and exchanging sex while high and exchanging sex for drugs in the last six months; (b) Multivariable associations between each individual built environment indicator and exchanging sex while high and exchanging sex for drugs, adjusting for police harassment

(a)
Environmental/land use variable Exchanged sex while high Exchanged sex for drugs
AOR [95%CIs] P AOR [95%CIs] P
Length of major roads within 50m buffer 1.05 [0.77–1.45]1 0.751 0.89 [0.69–1.14]2 0.346
Length of alley roads within 50m buffer ns ns
% Commercial areas within 50m buffer 0.76 [0.59–0.99]3 0.044 ns
% Industrial areas within 50m buffer 1.14 [0.83–1.56]4 0.421 ns
% of Parks within 50m buffer 1.18 [0.82–1.70]5 0.387 1.36 [1.06–1.75]6 0.017
Count of lighting within 50m buffer ns ns
% Built environment within 50m buffer ns ns
(b)
Environmental/land use variable Exchanged sex while high Exchanged sex for drugs
AOR [95%CIs] P AOR [95%CIs] P
Length of major roads within 50m buffer ns ns
Length of alley roads within 50m buffer ns ns
% Commercial areas within 50m buffer 0.86 [0.65–1.13]1 0.272 ns
% Industrial areas within 50m buffer ns ns
% of Parks within 50m buffer ns 1.38 [1.07–1.78]2 0.013
Count of lighting within 50m buffer ns ns
% Built environment within 50m buffer ns ns
1

Adjusted for: Age, age at first sex work, sexual minority, Aboriginal status, migrant status, homeless;

2

Age, migrant status;

3

Age, age at first sex work, Aboriginal status;

4

Sexual minority, migrant status, homeless;

5

Age, age at first sex work, migrant status, homeless;

6

Age, migrant status, homeless

ns = not significant in bivariate analysis and thus not explored in multivariable analysis

1

Adjusted for: Age at first sex work, sexual minority, migrant status, homeless, police harassment without arrest;

2

age, migrant status, homeless, police harassment without arrest

ns = not significant in bivariate analysis and thus not explored in multivariable analysis; or not significant in multivariable analysis in Table 5a, without adjusting for police harassment and thus not explored in multivariable analysis adjusting for police harassment

nc = police harassment not identified as a key confounder and thus not explored in multivariable analysis