Table 2.

Sociodemographic characteristics, HIV risk factors, recruitment waves and indices of homophily among foreign migrant men in Cape Town, South Africa, 2013 (n = 578)

Variable	Equa	Hxb	Sample Nc	Sample %d	RDS adjusted %	95 % CI
Socio-demographic characteristics
Age (Missing = 0)
16–24	5	0.305	134	23.2	28.0	22.0–34.4
25–29	2	0.091	164	28.4	28.3	22.9–34.0
30–34	4	0.097	153	26.5	23.4	18.3–28.8
35–54	4	0.236	127	22.0	20.2	14.9–26.2
Education status (Missing = 0)
Primary school or less	4	0.284	187	32.4	34.6	27.8–41.5
Some high school	3	0.168	108	18.7	19.2	14.2–24.9
Completed high school	4	0.417	283	49.0	46.2	38.8–53.4
Main source of income (Missing = 2)
None	1	−0.048	87	15.1	15.8	11.5–20.3
Wife/family members	2	0.123	108	18.2	19.0	14.6–24.1
Paid work/employment	2	0.122	197	34.2	35.5	29.3–41.4
Own business	2	0.203	146	25.4	21.1	16.5–26.5
Shady deals/transactional sex/other	1	0.034	38	6.6	8.7	4.8–13.3
Poverty status (Missing = 4)
Enough money for basics or more	1	0.112	294	53.8	50.8	44.8–56.8
Not enough money for food	1	0.016	253	46.2	49.2	43.2–55.2
Marital status (Missing = 2)
Married, living with wife	2	0.152	134	23.3	22.0	16.9–27.1
Married, not living with wife	2	0.047	107	18.6	22.2	17.0–27.7
Unmarried, living with sexual partner	2	0.080	101	17.5	15.9	11.7–20.6
Unmarried, not living with sexual partner	1	0.076	234	40.6	39.9	34.0–46.1
Housing type (Missing = 0)
Shack/backyard dwelling	2	0.158	272	47.1	48.6	42.6–55.3
Brick house/apartment and other types	2	0.247	306	52.9	51.4	44.7–57.4
Migration factors
Country of origin (Missing = 0)
Zimbabwe	17	0.759	165	28.6	26.6	16.5–39.1
Congo/DRC	23	0.858	169	29.2	29.4	17.4–43.7
Malawi	12	0.735	34	5.9	5.8	0.7–13.9
Tanzania	13	0.743	135	23.4	27.5	16.1–39.1
Other	5	0.522	75	13.0	10.7	5.8–15.4
Length of stay in south africa (Missing = 0)
12 months or less	3	0.171	100	17.3	24.8	18.9–31.2
13 months–5 years	2	0.123	288	49.8	50.6	44.2–56.9
> 5 years	3	0.286	190	32.9	24.6	19.2–30.4
Documentation (Missing = 0)
Asylum/Refugee/Visa/Other	1	0.059	479	82.9	78.2	72.4–83.4
No papers	1	0.307	99	17.1	21.8	16.6–27.6
Main push/pull factor (Missing = 0)
To find work	3	0.246	228	39.5	44.8	37.9–51.8
To get a better education	3	0.239	94	16.3	17.1	12.5–22.7
Escaping political persecution	2	0.142	160	27.7	23.0	17.9–28.6
Unhappy home life/other	2	−0.012	96	16.6	15.1	10.8–18.8
Behavioral HIV risk factors
Alcohol use frequency in the past 12 months (Missing = 2)
Never	2	0.120	271	47.1	47.7	41.8–53.8
A few times a month or less	2	0.071	214	37.2	35.0	29.3–40.5
Weekly	1	0.093	91	15.8	17.3	12.5–23.2
STI symptoms in past 3 months (Missing = 2)
No	1	0.112	464	80.6	79.4	73.6–84.4
Yes	1	0.030	122	19.4	20.6	15.6–26.4
Number of sexual partners in past 3 months (Missing = 28)
None	2	0.022	150	27.2	30.8	25.1–37.9
One	1	0.041	216	39.3	34.9	29.8–41.9
Two	1	−0.338	74	13.5	16.4	10.6–19.8
Three or more	2	0.023	110	20.0	17.9	13.4–22.1
Anal sex with a man in the past 6 months (Missing = 4)
None	1	0.067	451	94.3	93.8	89.9–97.0
Any	1	0.180	33	5.8	6.2	3.0–10.1
Transactional sex in the past 3 months (missing = 4)
None	1	0.014	417	72.7	73.0	67.7–78.2
Any	1	0.038	157	27.4	27.0	21.8–32.3
Sexual risk factors among recently sexually active men (N = 428)
Condom use frequency (Missing = 27)
Inconsistent	1	0.175	241	60.1	52.8	41.9–60.7
Always	1	−0.112	160	39.1	47.2	39.3–58.1
Condom use at last sex (Missing = 24)
No	1	0.059	129	31.9	26.4	20.1–33.9
Yes	1	−0.076	275	68.1	73.6	66.1–79.9

^aNumber of waves expected to reach Equilibrium

^bHomophily index

^cN’s may not sum to 578 due to missing data

^dValid percents shown