. 2015 Aug 22;15:813. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2135-1

Table 2.

Odds ratio of male circumcision status and socio-economic and behavioural characteristics across 11 priority countries

Country	Zimbabwe	Zambia	Tanzania	Swaziland	Rwanda	Namibia	Mozambique	Malawi	Lesotho	Kenya	Ethiopia
Country	N = 7,421	N = 6,495	N = 2,526	N = 4,155	N = 6,323	N = 3,912	N = 4,034	N = 7,159	N = 3,315	N = 3,464	N = 14,073
Marital Status
Never in union	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)
Married	1.70*	1.20*	0.88	2.27*	0.78*	1.39*	1.62*	1.17*	2.63*	1.51*	1.09
Separate	1.69*	1.32	1.19	2.46*	0.96	2.08*	1.34*	1.34	2.75*	1.96*	1.99*
Occupation^b
Professional	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)
Clerical	1.13	0.98	0^a	0.51*	0.48*	0.84	0.61*	1.72*	1.02	1.54	1.34
Skilled agricultural	0.89	1.06	0.26*	0.58*	0.11*	0.67*	0.68*	1	2.52*	0.66*	0.78
Elementary worker	0.92	0.88	0.66	0.44*	0.22*	0.72	0.57*	1.18	1.31	0.88	1.45
Non worker	0.67*	0.87	0.41*	0.26*	0.13*	0.53*	0.34*	0.89		0.39*	0.84
Access to Media
Good	0^a	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	0^a	(Referent)	0^a	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	0^a
Fair	(Referent)	0.94	0.72*	0.73	(Referent)	0.70*	(Referent)	1	1.67*	0.75*	(Referent)
Poor	0.94	1.33*	0.66*	0.98	0.45*	0.69	1.78*	0.84	2.09*	1.05	0.50*
No access	0.90	1.2	0.26*	0.8	0.28*	0.51*	0.92	1.21	2.52*	1.05	0.38*
Tobacco Use^c
No	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)
Yes	1.65*	1.29*	1.27	1.53*	0.8	1.37*	1.27*	1.07	2.20*	2.92*	0.83*
Attitude towards wife^d
Good attitude	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)
Poor attitude	1.45	0.84	0.74	0.62	2.25	2.27	0.96	0.98	0.95	1.05	1.06
HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge^e
Yes	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)	(Referent)
No	0.62*	0.76*	0.83	0.43*	0.53*	0.74*	0.96	1.07	1.11	1.26*	0.62*

Note: 0.02 % (Mozambique) to 0.79 % (Zimbabwe) participants did not respond to question on circumcision

*p < 0.05

^aNo respondents in this category

^b0.02 % (Zimbabwe) to 30.4 % (Lesotho) participants have missing information for occupation

^c0.02 % (Namibia) to 0.03 % (Malawi) participants have missing information for smoking

^dThis variable only includes married male respondents, of whom 0.43 % (Malawi) to 2.1 % (Kenya) did not respond to attitude towards wife

^e1.5 % (Rwanda) to 11.6 % (Lesotho) participants said “don’t know” for HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge