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. 2020 Jan 8;20:26. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-8122-1

Table 2.

Adolescent fertility rates (per 1000 women 15–19 years), relative difference, absolute change, adjusted change and difference in differences in the SIRIAN programme intervention and comparison neighbourhoods in the pre-intervention (2005–2010) and post-intervention periods (2011–16)

Neighbourhood group AFRa
Pre
2005–10
AFRa
Post
2011–16
Relative differenceb Absolute changec AFRa (95%CI) p value Difference in differencesd
AFRa (95%CI)
p value Adjusted changec
AFRae (95%CI)
p value Difference in differencesd AFRae
(95%CI)
p value
Intervention 27.90 19.34 −30.7 −8.56 (−13.22 to − 3.80) < 0.001 −12.84 (− 20.67 to − 5.01) < 0.01 − 12.30 (− 12.45 to − 12.21) < 0.001 − 10.97 (− 13.91 to − 8.03) < 0.001
Comparison 21.84 26.17 19.8 4.33 (−1.93 to 10.59) 0.175 1.91 (−2.25 to 6.07) 0.368

aAFR Adolescent fertility rate (per 1000 women 15–19 years)

bRelative difference: (AFR Pre-AFR post/AFR Pre)*100

cβI [Intervention]: Intervention and comparison groups

dβT*I [Time*Intervention]: interaction between period and intervention

eAdjusted by annual neighbourhood’s immigrant population per group