Table 3:

Linear regression coefficients (B) and 95% credible intervals (CI) for the total, direct and total indirect associations of each multilevel exposure of education with incident HSV-2 infection^*

	Total	Total Indirect	Direct
	B (95% CI)	B (95% CI)	B (95% CI)
Community: Mean vears of education	−0.01 (−0.08, 0.07)	0.02 (0.01,0.03)	−0.03 (−0.10,0.05)
Household: Parental level of education
No school	−0.01(−0.11,0.08)	0.00(−0.01,0.23)	−0.02(−0.12,0.08)
Primary school	−0.11(−0.22, −0.001)	0.01(0.00,0.03)	−0.12(−0.23, −0.01)
Some secondary school	−0.04(−0.14,0.06)	0.01(0.00,0.02)*	−0.05(−0.15,0.05)
Completed secondary (ref)	0	0	0
Individual: Low school attendance	0.09(0.02,0.16)	0.04(0.02,0.06)	0.05(−0.02,0.12)

^*CI = Credible Interval; Bold is P <= 0.05; N=6,723 person-time observations from 1,691 participants.

^**Lower bound is 0.001 due appears as 0.00 due to rounding