Table 2.

Interval-censored regression results for young people in Malawi, 2007–13: HSV-2 (assuming HSV-2 negative at age 14)

	Boys			Girls
	Coefficient	SE		Coefficient	SE
In school (enrolled)	0.313	0.170	†	−0.004	0.122
Highest grade attained	−0.090	0.033	**	−0.073	0.027	**
Mother’s education (ref. Never attended/don’t know)
Less than primary	−0.006	0.157		−0.036	0.120
Completed primary	0.297	0.242		0.000	0.188
Father’s education (ref. Never attended/don’t know)
Less than primary	−0.095	0.166		−0.090	0.130
Completed primary	0.029	0.197		0.091	0.149
Ethnic group (ref. Yao)
Chewa	0.035	0.180		−0.195	0.142
Lomwe	−0.145	0.066	*	−0.138	0.051	**
Other groups	−0.246	0.209		−0.318	0.162	*
HSV-2 prevalence in school catchment area, 2010	0.015	0.010		0.035	0.007	***
Mother dead	−0.142	0.195		0.068	0.145
Father dead	0.234	0.151		0.163	0.118
Intercept	−24.086	1.683	***	−21.560	1.226	***
Scale parameter	7.474	0.560	***	6.770	0.401	***
Log likelihood	−741.89			−1,063.95
Chi2	24.10		*	48.67		***
Number	1,166			1,226
Observations	4,778			5,094

^†p < 0.10;

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.001.

Notes: HSV-2 is a time-varying covariate measured beginning at age 14. SE refers to the standard error. Ref. is the reference category.

Source: Authors’ analysis from MSAS data.