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. 2023 Jan;317:115566. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115566

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the city GII, woman's achievements scores, indicators, and covariates by quartiles of sub-city adolescent birth rates.

Overall First (Lowest) Second Third Fourth (highest) P value
ABR range (sub-city level) (1.0–246.8) (1.0–43.0) (43.0–58.6) (58.6–75.3) (75.4–246.8)
Sub-cities (N) 1403 351 351 351 350
Cities (N)a
360
105
165
167
130

City-level scores (mean (sd))
WA autonomy score 0.03 (2.49) 0.83 (1.35) 0.55 (1.24) −0.03 (1.23) −0.64 (1.13) <0.001
WA education score 0.03 (1.85) 2.08 (1.80) 0.79 (1.60) 0.17 (1.75) −0.15 (1.87) <0.001
WA health care access scorea 0.16 (1.99) 1.12 (1.88) 1.13 (2.12) 0.17 (2.13) −1.11 (1.50) <0.001
Gender Inequality Index
0.27 (0.14)
0.23 (0.13)
0.27 (0.14)
0.29 (0.14)
0.29 (0.14)
<0.001
City-level Indicators (mean(sd))
Education
% Women 25 and older with high school 41.68 (12.24) 54.79 (13.28) 45.66 (10.39) 41.49 (10.61) 39.35 (11.32) <0.001
% Men 25 and older with high school 41.75 (13.31) 57.73 (16.53) 46.32 (11.88) 42.13 (10.76) 40.59 (10.47) <0.001
% Women 25 and older with university 15.73 (4.72) 18.39 (4.13) 15.93 (4.13) 14.64 (4.53) 13.97 (4.84) <0.001
Labor force
% Women 15 and older in the labor force 50.18 (8.43) 54.12 (6.70) 52.71 (7.42) 49.17 (8.15) 44.73 (6.33) <0.001
% Men 15 and older in the labor force 76.32 (3.71) 76.09 (3.36) 76.42 (3.28) 76.76 (3.16) 77.32 (2.75) <0.001
Health care
% Women 50–79 with mammogram in the last 2 yearsa 42.24 (16.20) 51.86 (15.6) 51.57 (16.8) 43.23 (16.7) 33.45 (12.05) <0.001
% Women 25–49 with pap smear in the last 3 yearsb 72.34 (8.26) 76.21 (6.57) 75.83 (8.95) 72.51 (9.12) 67.84 (6.68) <0.001
Political participation and child marriage
Cities with at least 1 female mayor (N, %) 83 (22.9) 32 (30.4) 52 (31.5) 48 (28.7) 36 (27.7) 0.893c
% Women 15-17 married/15–17 female pop
0.79 (1.18)
0.63 (0.88)
0.46 (0.64)
0.78 (1.02)
1.12 (1.25)
<0.001
City and sub-city level Covariates (mean(sd))
Population size average (100,000 people) (city level) 24.31 (62.53) 129.69 (158.42) 125.79 (195.72) 102.45 (178.35) 113.16 (197.65) 0.185
Percent population growth (2010–2015) (city level) 6.45 (3.62) 6.37 (2.37) 5.69 (2.40) 6.70 (3.14) 6.93 (3.21) <0.001
Homicide rates (per 100,000 people) (city level) 24.64 (21.25) 10.59 (10.56) 21.56 (17.67) 24.71 (18.98) 23.46 (19.51) <0.001
Living conditions score (sub-city level)d 0.29 (2.42) 1.49 (1.75) 0.98 (1.83) −0.34 (2.48) −2.16 (2.67) <0.001
Educational attainment score (sub-city level)e −0.51 (1.03) 1.03 (1.99) −0.23 (1.13) −0.84 (1.10) −1.28 (1.02) <0.001

ABR: Adolescent birth rates, live births per 1000 women aged 15–19 years.

We present mean, standard deviations and p-values resulting from ANOVA test for all variables, otherwise specified.

Some cities have more than 1 sub-city and appear in more than 1 quartile.

a

This variable is only available for 129 cities, 4 countries (28 cities in the first quartile; 60 cities in the second; 73 cities in the third; and 66 cities in the fourth).

b

For Peru the age range is 30–49, this indicator is only available for 176 cities in 6 countries.

c

Two-side chi-square test.

d

SALURBAL living conditions score: proportion of households with piped water, overcrowding, and school attendance for people 15–17 years old.

e

SALURBAL educational attainment score: proportion of people 25+ who completed secondary education or more and proportion of people 25+ who completed university education or more.