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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Glob Soc Welf. 2015 May 8;2(2):87–103. doi: 10.1007/s40609-015-0029-x

Table 3.

Factors Associated with School Enrollment, Multivariate Logistic Regression, 15-19 year olds, Rakai, 1994-2013

RISK FACTORS Adolescent Women (n = 8782) Adolescent Men (n = 7335)
Odds Ratio Estimate 95% Lower 95% Upper P-value* Odds Ratio Estimate 95% Lower 95% Upper P-value*
Age of respondents 0.63 −0.46 −0.50 −0.42 <0.001 0.60 −0.52 −0.55 −0.48 <0.001
Family Size 1.13 0.12 0.10 0.14 <0.001 1.14 0.13 0.11 0.16 <0.001
Sibship Size
1-59% (1st quartile) ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref
60-70% (2nd quartile) 1.20 0.18 0.01 0.36 0.041 1.01 0.01 −0.14 0.16 0.929
71-79% (3rd quartile) 0.98 −0.02 −0.20 0.16 0.844 0.97 −0.03 −0.19 0.13 0.702
80-100% (4th quartile) 0.77 −0.26 −0.44 −0.08 0.004 0.79 −0.23 −0.39 −0.07 0.004
SES
High ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref
Median 0.86 −0.15 −0.30 −0.01 0.034 0.74 −0.30 −0.42 −0.17 <0.001
Low 0.56 −0.58 −0.73 −0.42 <0.001 0.50 −0.69 −0.83 −0.55 <0.001
Orphanhood status
Not an orphan ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref
Double orphan 0.52 −0.65 −0.82 −0.48 <0.001 0.52 −0.66 −0.83 −0.48 <0.001
Mother died 0.50 −0.68 −0.91 −0.46 <0.001 0.75 −0.28 −0.50 −0.07 0.011
Father died 0.66 −0.42 −0.57 −0.26 <0.001 1.02 0.02 −0.14 0.17 0.838
Marriage Status
Never Married ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref
Ever Married 0.004 −5.65 −6.42 −4.88 <0.001 0.24 −1.44 −2.00 −0.87 <0.001
Residency area
Rural villages ref ref ref ref ref
Trading viliages 0.79 −0.24 −0.38 −0.10 0.001
*

All statistical testing used logistic regression with robust estimation.

*

not significant in men

Note: Sample includes adolescents 15-19 years from 28 Rakai communities followed continuously from 1994-2013, Rakai District, Uganda

SES= Household socioeconomic status