Table 3.

Reporting of staying in a relationship to receive money or goods among sexually active AGYW (n = 3009)

Variable	Transactional relationship									Chi square (χ2) | p-value	95% CI
	Overall			Did not report a transactional relationship			Reported a transactional relationship
	n	%	95% CI	n	%	95% CI	n	%	95% CI
Age group
15–19	1300	43.3	41.8–44.8	1130	87.2	85.6–88.8	170	12.8	11.2–14.4	2. 318 | 0.1264	− 0.45–3.69
20–24	1709	56.7	55.2–58.2	1450	85.6	84.1–87.0	259	14.4	13.0–15.9
In school
No	1669	56.0	54.5–57.6	1418	85.6	84.1–86.9	251	14.4	13.1–15.9	2.73 | 0.10
Yes	1340	44.0	42.4–45.5	1162	87.3	85.6–88.8	178	12.7	11.1–14.4
HIV Status †
Positive	499	15.9	14.8–17.0	404	81.8	78.9–84.4	95	18.2	15.6–21.1	14.41 | <0.01	− 8.19– − 2.63
Negative	2509	84.1	83.0–85.2	2175	87.2	86.0–88.3	334	12.8	11.7–14.0
Reported higher food insecurity
No	2431	80.6	79.2–82.0	2135	88.3	87.2–89.3	296	11.7	10.7–12.8	36.66 | 0.00	7.09–13.42
Yes	578	19.4	18.0–20.8	445	78.1	74.8–81.1	133	21.9	18.9–25.2
Household social grant dependency
No	1572	54.3	52.5–56.2	1360	87.2	85.7–88.5	212	12.8	11.5–14.3	2.93 | 0.08	− 0.25–3.92
Yes	1437	45.7	43.8–47.5	1220	85.3	83.6–87.0	217	14.7	13.0–16.4
Had high alcohol use (Audit-C score 2 or higher)
No	2082	67.5	65.9–69.1	1821	87.9	86.5–89.2	261	12.1	10.8–13.5	18.19 | 0.00	2.58–6.95
Yes	927	32.5	30.9–34.1	759	83.1	81.2–84.9	168	16.9	15.1–18.8
Partner older than 5 years
No	1987	66.2	64.8–67.6	1764	89.2	87.9–90.4	223	10.8	9.6–12.1	55.8 | 0.00
Yes	1022	33.8	32.2–35.2	816	80.6	78.6–82.5	206	19.4	17.5–21.4