Table 4. Multivariable logistics analysis of the association between selected socio-demographic variables (excluding education), and girl-child marriage in 11 West African countries using the most recent country-specific Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data.
| Ghana | Benin | Cote
d’Ivoire |
Senegal | Liberia | Nigeria | Sierra
Leone |
Burkina
Faso |
Guinea | Mali | Niger | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background
Characteristics |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
AOR
(95% CI) |
| Residence | |||||||||||
| Urban RC | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Rural | 1.37
(0.98–1.93) |
1.28
*
(1.05–1.57) |
1.79
*
(1.10–2.92) |
1.38
(0.94–2.03) |
1.20
(0.92–1.56) |
2.11
***
(1.74–2.56) |
1.74
**
(1.28–2.37) |
2.46
***
(1.93–3.13) |
1.63
*
(1.11–2.40) |
1.24
(0.86–1.80) |
5.60
***
(3.78–8.30) |
| Wealth quintile h | |||||||||||
| Richest RC | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Richer | 1.24
(0.66–2.31) |
1.73
***
(1.31–2.82) |
2.28
**
(1.42–3.65) |
1.27
(0.66–2.42) |
2.39
**
(1.31–4.34) |
2.07
***
(1.61–2.66) |
1.64
**
(1.16–2.32) |
1.67
***
(1.26–2.22) |
2.26
***
(1.62–3.16) |
2.14
***
(1.51–3.06) |
2.02
***
(1.39–2.94) |
| Middle | 1.74
*
(1.01–3.02) |
2.74
***
(2.04–3.70) |
1.94
**
(1.19 –3.15) |
2.62
***
(1.62–4.22) |
2.72
***
(1.70–4.37) |
3.08
***
(2.37–4.01) |
2.35
***
(1.57–3.52) |
1.99
***
(1.50–2.65) |
3.39
***
(2.19–5.26) |
3.75
***
(2.45–5.74) |
1.77
*
(1.11–2.80) |
| Poorer | 1.96
*
(1.05–3.67) |
4.02
***
(2.99–5.39) |
2.59
**
(1.38–4.89) |
4.05
***
(2.41–6.79) |
4.35
***
(2.56–7.39) |
6.67
***
(5.10–8.72) |
2.97
***
(1.91–4.63) |
2.40
***
(1.79–3.22) |
4.79
***
(2.97–7.71) |
3.19
***
(2.03–5.02) |
1.68
*
(1.06–2.64) |
| Poorest | 2.72
**
(1.44–5.15) |
4.51
***
(3.28–6.20) |
4.77
***
(2.59–8.80) |
6.88
***
(4.12–11.50) |
4.53
***
(2.67–7.69) |
10.55
***
(7.71–14.45) |
3.11
***
(2.04–4.75) |
2.58
***
(1.84–3.61) |
5.84
***
(3.54–9.65) |
3.86
***
(2.38–6.26) |
1.64
*
(1.02–2.65) |
| Religion | |||||||||||
| Christianity RC | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Non–Christians m | 1.70
**
(1.22–2.37) |
1.52
***
(1.28–1.80) |
2.50
***
(1.98–3.18) |
7.25
***
(3.18–16.54) |
1.96
***
(1.43–2.68) |
5.86
***
(4.96–6.92) |
1.69
***
(1.34–2.12) |
1.84
***
(1.54–2.20) |
1.13
(0.70–1.81) |
2.40
***
(1.56–3.71) |
NA |
RC Reference category; hhousehold wealth quintile; mMuslim and others including traditionalist, animist, no religion; AOR adjusted odds ratio; NA data not available, CI confidence interval, *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05