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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Fam Plann. 2012 Mar;43(1):33–42. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2012.00300.x

Table 3.

Wives’ and husbands’ reports of sexual behavior and contraceptive use and percentage of couple agreement, Liberia, Madagascar, and Namibia, 2006–09

Outcome variable Liberia
Madagascar
Namibia
Wife Husband Couple agreement (kappa) Wife Husband Couple agreement (kappa) Wife Husband Couple agreement (kappa)
Days since last coitus (mean) 9.2 9.8 54.0 (0.33) 7.2 7.6*** 74.7 (0.41) 8.7 9.6* 30.7 (0.21)
Condom use at last sex (percent) 3.1 5.5*** 93.8 (0.30) 1.9 2.1 98.3 (0.43) 18.2 22.8* 80.4 (0.42)
Current contraceptive use (percent) 13.3 10.0** 85.1 (0.27) 40.6 29.4*** 83.5 (0.67) 56.7 50.3* 66.0 (0.32)
*

Test for difference between wives and husbands significant at p < 0.05;

**

p < 0.01;

***

p < 0.001.

Notes: Data for wives and husbands separately (but not for couples) are weighted. P-value for “days since last coitus” variable determined by t-test for paired means. For the two contraceptive-use variables, p-value determined by McNemar’s chi-square test for paired proportions. All kappa values are significantly different from zero (p < 0.0001).