Table 4.
Multilevel Poisson Models Results Analyzing whether the Child Morbidity Risk Associated with Divorce Varies by its Subnational Region-Level Prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.
| Model 1 |
Model 2 |
Model 3 |
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| IRR | Coeff | S.E. | Sig | IRR | Coeff | S.E. | Sig | IRR | Coeff | S.E. | Sig | |
| Cross-level Interaction | ||||||||||||
| % Divorced women in subnational region*Mother divorced/separated | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | ** | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | ** | ||||
| % Divorced women in subnational region*Mother widowed | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ||||||
| % Divorced women in subnational region*Mother never married | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | ** | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | * | ||||
| % Divorced women in subnational region*Mother polygynously married | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| % Divorced women in subnational region*Mother married (ref) | — | — | ||||||||||
| Mothers’ marital status | ||||||||||||
| Divorced | 1.09 | 0.09 | 0.01 | *** | 1.20 | 0.18 | 0.04 | *** | 1.19 | 0.17 | 0.04 | *** |
| Widowed | 1.09 | 0.08 | 0.03 | ** | 1.11 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 1.12 | 0.11 | 0.05 | * | |
| Never-married | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 1.07 | 0.07 | 0.03 | ** | 1.10 | 0.09 | 0.03 | *** | |
| Polygynously married | 1.04 | 0.04 | 0.01 | *** | 1.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 1.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | ||
| Monogamously married (ref) | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Subnational region prevalence of divorced women (%) | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ||||||
| Key maternal characteristics | ||||||||||||
| Experienced IPV1 | 1.23 | 0.20 | 0.01 | *** | ||||||||
| Years of formal schooling | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | *** | ||||||||
| Household wealth | ||||||||||||
| Poorest | — | |||||||||||
| Poor | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.01 | |||||||||
| Average | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.01 | |||||||||
| Rich | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | |||||||||
| Richest | 0.96 | −0.04 | 0.01 | ** | ||||||||
| Additional controls | ||||||||||||
| Child-level | ||||||||||||
| Maternal age at birth | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | *** | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | *** | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.00 | *** |
| Birth order | 1.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | *** | 1.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | *** | 1.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | *** |
| Length of preceding birth interval | ||||||||||||
| First born | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Short interval | 1.01 | −0.06 | 0.01 | *** | 0.94 | −0.06 | 0.01 | *** | 0.94 | −0.07 | 0.01 | *** |
| Long interval | 1.01 | −0.04 | 0.01 | *** | 0.96 | −0.04 | 0.01 | *** | 0.96 | −0.04 | 0.01 | *** |
| Female | 1.01 | −0.03 | 0.01 | *** | 0.97 | −0.03 | 0.01 | *** | 0.97 | −0.03 | 0.01 | *** |
| Multiple birth | 1.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.99 | −0.01 | 0.02 | |||
| Child’s age in months | 1.00 | −0.02 | 0.00 | *** | 0.98 | −0.02 | 0.00 | *** | 0.98 | −0.02 | 0.00 | *** |
| Subnational region-level | ||||||||||||
| Percent households rural | 0.81 | −0.22 | 0.11 | * | ||||||||
| Percent women employed | 1.76 | 0.57 | 0.15 | *** | ||||||||
| Average years of school among women | 0.98 | −0.02 | 0.02 | |||||||||
| Country-level | ||||||||||||
| Country dummies (not shown) | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Variance components | ||||||||||||
| Between-subnational region variance | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.06 | |||||||||
| Model Fit | ||||||||||||
| Log-likelihood | −192223.82 | −192204.84 | −191839.52 | |||||||||
*
p<.05.
**
p<.01.
***
p<.001.
Source: Demographic and Health Survey.