Table 5.
Multi level model showing individual and village level characteristics predictive of age at marriage, and proportion of variance accounted for
| Null Model (1) | Village level only (2) | Individual characteristics (3) | Individual and Village characteristics (4) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coef | SE | P | Coef | SE | P | Coef | SE | P | ||
| Household assets village level mean | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.84 | |||||||
| Wife decides spouse village level proportion | −0.02 | 0.11 | 0.83 | |||||||
| Proportion of women agricultural work village | −0.40 | 0.10 | 0.00 | −0.38 | 0.10 | 0.00 | ||||
| Mean age difference between spouses village | −0.32 | 0.09 | 0.00 | −0.13 | 0.09 | 0.16 | ||||
| Age difference husband/wife | −1.17 | 0.15 | 0.00 | −1.15 | 0.15 | 0.00 | ||||
| Age difference husband/wife quadratic | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| Wife decides spouse | −0.14 | 0.12 | 0.26 | −0.05 | 0.12 | 0.66 | ||||
| Quranic education Husband | −0.09 | 0.12 | 0.47 | −0.09 | 0.12 | 0.45 | ||||
| Quranic education Wife | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.89 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.90 | ||||
| Education Wife | 0.21 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.07 | 0.00 | ||||
| Education Husband | −0.02 | 0.06 | 0.69 | −0.01 | 0.06 | 0.90 | ||||
| Household assets | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.29 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.51 | ||||
| Food security | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.70 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0.87 | ||||
| Wife agricultural work | −0.57 | 0.12 | 0.00 | −0.36 | 0.14 | 0.01 | ||||
| Extended family | 0.16 | 0.13 | 0.23 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.22 | ||||
| Number of wives | 0.92 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.94 | 0.16 | 0.00 | ||||
| Tribe Hausa (ref) | ||||||||||
| Tribe Zarma | 0.37 | 0.20- | 0.07 | 0.39 | 0.21 | 0.06 | ||||
| Group Level Variance | 0.55 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.19 | ||||||
| Individual Level Variance | 2.81 | 2.81 | 2.54 | 2.53 | ||||||
| ICC | 16% | 7.5% | 11% | 7% | ||||||
| AIC | 4075 | 4052 | 3978 | 3964 | ||||||