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Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Infect. 2016 Feb 3;92(4):316–322. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052268

Table 3.

Results of cluster analysis: clusters with high and low rates

Case definition High rate clusters
Low rate clusters
Cluster type No of observed cases No of expected cases LLR Cluster RR p Value Cluster type No of observed cases No of expected cases LLR Cluster RR p Value
Sociodemographic characteristics
 Gender: male Primary   10     4.97     7.06     2.01   0.352 Primary   24   40.73     7.88     0.59   0.171
 Marital status: married/cohabitated Primary 201 166.56   15.36     1.21 <0.001 Primary 167 202.88   15.08     0.82 <0.001
 Employment: unemployed Primary     4     0.55     7.98     7.23   0.108 Primary   18   33.46     6.85     0.54   0.240
 Duration of living in Guangzhou: ≤1 year Primary   16     4.60   11.64     3.47   0.007 Primary   27   45.20     8.50     0.60   0.051
 Migrants: yes Primary 148 101.24   36.39     1.46 <0.001 Primary 131 189.25   37.98     0.69 <0.001
 Migrants: yes Secondary   49   34.51     8.55     1.42   0.10 Secondary     1     8.63     9.03     0.12   0.078
 College students: yes Primary   52   27.02   19.58     1.92 <0.001 Primary   16   36.26   13.15     0.44 <0.001
 Sexual orientation: not heterosexual Primary     5     0.41     9.57   12.06   0.051 Primary     0     4.02     4.40     0   0.610
Risky sexual behaviours
 Consumption of alcohol/other drug before sex: yes Primary     4     0.26     9.82   15.62   0.010 Primary     0     5.99     7.28     0   0.038
 Anal intercourse: yes Primary     5     0.38   13.39   13.32 <0.001 Primary     0     4.58     5.22     0   0.309
 Multiple sexual partnerships: yes Primary     3     0.55     5.15     5.47   0.680 Primary     5   17.93     9.29     0.28   0.025
 Lived with one of multiple sex partners: no Primary     9     5.77     4.41     1.56   0.269 Primary     7   13.45     6.37     0.52   0.084
 Casual sex partners: yes Primary     4     0.51     6.93     7.88   0.296 Primary     1   10.45     9.07     0.09   0.012
 Unprotected sex: yes Primary   30   23.12     8.37     1.30   0.036 Primary     0     3.08     5.99     0   0.249
STDs
 Self-reported STDs: yes Primary     2     0.13     5.52   15.46   0.630 Primary     0     3.49     3.75     0   0.960

All dichotomous, ordinal and nominal variables were scanned for high and low rate clusters by Bernoulli model, ordinal model and multinomial model, respectively. LLR, likelihood ratio; STDs, sexually transmitted diseases; RR, rate ratio.