Table 5.

Associations between participant and friendship characteristics when excluding HIV‐positive young women and reporting never sex (n=2290) and when including all young women (n=2326), adjusted for participant age

	Excluding those HIV positive reporting never sex, n=2290				Including all young women, n=2326
	OR	95% CI		p value	OR	95% CI		p value
Each additional year in age	1.89	1.57	2.28	<0.001	1.31	1.15	1.49	<0.001
School grade
8	1.00			0.618	1.00			0.005
9	2.11	0.44	10.18		0.39	0.19	0.78
10	1.32	0.27	6.45		0.27	0.13	0.57
11	1.84	0.38	9.07		0.36	0.17	0.80
Orphanhood
Parents alive	1.00			0.277	1.00			<0.001
Mother only alive	1.25	0.56	2.76		1.47	0.82	2.64
Father only alive	1.43	0.41	4.97		1.76	0.73	4.26
Neither parent alive	2.78	1.08	7.20		4.67	2.48	8.78
Household SEP
First quintile	1.00			0.631	1.00			0.739
Second	0.74	0.27	2.00		0.71	0.34	1.45
Third	0.67	0.24	1.89		0.72	0.35	1.47
Fourth	1.36	0.56	3.30		1.01	0.52	1.96
Fifth	0.79	0.28	2.23		0.75	0.36	1.54
Mother's education
No school	1.00			0.458	1.00			0.609
Attended primary but not completed	1.38	0.56	3.42		1.64	0.78	3.43
Completed primary, some high school	0.95	0.37	2.46		1.05	0.48	2.27
Completed high school	0.52	0.15	1.78		1.39	0.65	2.99
Do not know	1.38	0.44	4.38		1.32	0.50	3.47
Father's education
No school	1.00			0.728	1.00			0.292
Attended primary but not completed	0.75	0.25	2.21		0.86	0.39	1.89
Completed primary, some high school	0.86	0.27	2.70		0.61	0.25	1.47
Completed high school	1.38	0.54	3.55		1.34	0.68	2.64
Do not know	1.29	0.50	3.37		1.21	0.59	2.50
Each additional friend perceived to have had sex	1.36	1.09	1.68	0.004	1.03	0.96	1.11	0.406
Each additional friend ≥1 year older	1.44	1.14	1.83	0.005	1.11	0.92	1.34	0.293
No male friends				0.135	1.00			0.028
≥1 male friend	1.86	0.86	4.01		1.93	1.11	3.37
All friends in school	1.00			0.112	1.00			0.003
≥1 friend out of school	1.74	0.89	3.41		2.15	1.31	3.54
Each additional friend who is a relative	1.09	0.97	1.23	0.157	1.06	0.97	1.16	0.194