Table 2.

Unadjusted binary logistic regression showing bivariate relationship between explanatory variables and spousal violence

Characteristic	% of spousal violence	Coeff.	P > |t|	95% CI	Characteristic	% of spousal violence	Coeff.	P > |t|	95% CI
Parity
Childlessref	12.2	–	–	–	Community residence type
Only one child	16.6	0.360	0.212	−0.204 0.923	Urbanref	20.7	–	–	–
Two or more children	21.9	0.704	0.002	0.260 1.148	Rural	22.0	0.074	0.473	−0.129 0.278
Maternal age (years)					Geographic region
35–39 ref	22.2	–	–	–	North-centralref	26.6	–	–	–
40–44	21.7	−0.029	0.743	−0.202 0.144	North-east	28.3	0.085	0.557	−0.198 0.368
45–49	20.2	−0.121	0.147	−0.284 0.043	North-west	15.4	−0.686	<0.001	−0.989 -0.383
Education					South-east	30.6	0.195	0.209	−0.109 0.500
None ref	18.1	–	–	–	South-south	23.2	−0.184	0.251	−0.497 0.130
Primary	28.1	0.568	<0.001	0.381 0.754	South-west	16.1	−0.636	<0.001	−0.919 -0.353
Secondary	25.1	0.416	<0.001	0.216 0.615	Type of marriage
Higher	15.6	−0.183	0.234	−0.484 0.118	Monogamyref	21.4	–	–	–
Age at first marriage					Polygyny	21.5	0.007	0.930	−0.147 0.161
Less than 15 years ref	20.3	–	–	–	Partner alcoholic consumption
15–19	21.1	0.048	0.597	−0.129 0.224	Does not drinkref	17.3	–	–	–
20–24	25.1	0.273	0.006	0.077 0.469	Drinks	38.5	1.100	<0.001	0.935 1.266
25 years or older	19.5	−0.046	0.677	−0.263 0.171	Family power relation
Pregnancy termination					Not male dominatedref	23.8	–	–	–
Ever terminated ref	27.1	–	–	–	Male dominated	20.0	−0.221	0.006	−0.379 -0.062
Never terminated	20.3	−0.376	<0.001	−0.548 -0.204	Household wealth
Proportion justifying wife-battery					Poorestref	18.0	–	–	–
Low ref	18.5	–	–	–	Poorer	24.6	0.400	<0.001	0.176 0.624
High	24.6	0.358	<0.001	0.261 0.634	Middle	24.4	0.386	0.002	0.138 0.635
Proportion who witnessed interparental violence					Richer	23.1	0.314	0.014	0.065 0.564
Low ref	17.9	–	–	–	Richest	18.1	0.011	0.941	−0.273 0.294
High	25.4	0.447	<0.001	0.261 0.634

Notes: ref. (reference category)