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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biosoc Sci. 2014 Jan 9;47(3):311–328. doi: 10.1017/S0021932013000709

Table 5. Parameter estimatesa (odds ratios) for three-level ordered logit models predicting number of extramarital partners in the past year.

Men and women Women only Men only

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Model 6
Explanatory variables
Fixed effects
Community (cluster) charac.
 Gini coefficient 1.41 1.29 1.48
Wealth ratio 1.27*** 1.54*** 1.15
Individual characteristics
 Demographics
  Age (years) 0.99** 0.99** 1.01 1.01 0.97*** 0.97***
Sex (male) 4.41*** 4.41***
  Residence (urban) 1.27*** 1.29*** 1.68** 1.80** 1.12 1.12
  Working 1.44*** 1.45*** 1.49** 1.51*** 1.39*** 1.39***
  Education
   None (Ref.)
   Primary 1.06 1.07 1.39*** 1.37*** 0.95 0.96
   Secondary+ 1.14* 1.14* 1.08 1.06 1.11 1.12
  Marital status
   Unmarried (Ref.)
   Married/living together 0.01*** 0.01*** 0.01*** 0.01*** 0.01*** 0.01***
   Not living together 0.25*** 0.25*** 0.08*** 0.08*** 0.41*** 0.41***
  Wealth quintile
   Lowest (Ref.)
   Second 0.93 0.95 1.22 1.25 0.85 0.87
   Middle 1.00 1.04 1.28 1.33 0.93 0.98
   Fourth 0.99 1.02 1.23 1.27 0.92 0.96
   Highest 1.07 1.09 1.10 1.12 1.10 1.12
  Religion
 Roman Catholic (Ref.)
  Protest./other Christian 0.91** 0.91** 1.00 1.01 0.87*** 0.87***
   Muslim 1.17 1.16 1.15 1.15 1.15** 1.14**
None/other 1.10 1.10 1.11 1.11 1.10 1.11
Random effects
Cluster-level (level 2) var. 0.24 0.24 0.50 0.49 0.32 0.32
Country-level (level 3) var.b 0.30*** 0.33*** 0.61*** 0.57*** 0.26*** 0.32***
Log likelihood -15059.09 -15054.39 -4139.389 -4131.821 -10607.86 -10608.94
AIC 30160.19 30150.79 8318.779 8303.643 21255.73 21257.88
a

Parameters for predictors (fixed effects) are reported as odds ratio; for random effects, the parameter is the variance

b

Significance of random effects evaluated by comparing model with a similar one in which random effects have been constrained to be zero.

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001