Table 5. Multivariable logistics analysis of the association between selected socio-demographic variables (including 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 | 1.32
(0.90–1.92) |
1.18
(0.97–1.44) |
1.52
(0.93–2.50) |
0.94
(0.64–1.39) |
1.15
(0.87–1.52) |
1.86
***
(1.54–2.25) |
1.40
*
(1.06–1.86) |
1.99
***
(1.55–2.54) |
1.40
(0.96–2.03) |
1.15
(0.81–1.63) |
4.23
***
(2.90–6.17) |
| Education | |||||||||||
| Secondary/higher RC | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Primary | 3.00
***
(2.19–4.11) |
3.37
***
(2.59–4.39) |
3.01
***
(2.10–4.32) |
4.12
***
(2.89–5.88) |
1.60
**
(1.14–2.23) |
4.47
***
(3.73–5.35) |
4.16
***
(3.29–5.26) |
2.43
***
(1.80–3.28) |
3.67
***
(2.70–4.97) |
2.78
***
(1.94–3.96) |
3.63
***
(2.54–5.19) |
| No education | 4.62
***
(3.20–6.69) |
5.71
***
(4.51–7.23) |
3.91
***
(2.83–5.39) |
7.69
***
(2.89–5.88) |
3.13
***
(2.35–4.17) |
6.76
***
(5.52–8.27) |
4.72
***
(3.84–5.81) |
4.23
***
(3.14–5.71) |
5.81
***
(4.25–7.94) |
4.43
***
(3.37–5.83) |
6.18
***
(4.43–8.62) |
| 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 | 1.19
(0.64–2.22) |
1.30
(0.97–1.74) |
1.97
**
(1.21–3.19) |
1.12
(0.56–2.22) |
2.09
*
(1.14–3.86) |
1.58
***
(1.24–2.00) |
1.38
(0.96–1.98) |
1.26
(0.94–1.69) |
1.80
**
(1.29–2.52) |
1.48
*
(1.06–2.07) |
1.52
*
(1.05–2.19) |
| Middle | 1.53
(0.89–2.64) |
1.78
***
(1.30–2.44) |
1.53
(0.93 –2.51) |
2.39
***
(1.50–3.82) |
2.22
**
(1.35–3.64) |
1.56
**
(1.20–2.03) |
1.80
**
(1.21–2.66) |
1.41
*
(1.05–1.88) |
2.21
**
(1.41–3.47) |
2.16
***
(1.45–3.22) |
1.26
(0.81–1.97) |
| Poorer | 1.41
(0.74–2.70) |
2.27
***
(1.66–3.09) |
2.00
*
(1.05–3.79) |
3.17
***
(1.94–5.18) |
3.18
***
(1.81–5.57) |
2.42
***
(1.84–3.19) |
2.03
**
(1.32–3.13) |
1.64
**
(1.21–2.22) |
2.59
***
(1.60–4.21) |
1.62
*
(1.07–2.46) |
1.17
(0.75–1.82) |
| Poorest | 1.55
(0.79–3.05) |
2.25
***
(1.60–3.16) |
3.46
***
(1.85–6.44) |
5.35
***
(3.28–8.73) |
2.83
***
(1.60–5.02) |
3.03
***
(2.20–4.17) |
1.83
**
(1.20–2.79) |
1.73
**
(1.23–2.44) |
2.94
***
(1.76–4.93) |
1.95
**
(1.24–3.08) |
1.07
(0.66–1.72) |
| 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 | 1.19
(0.84–1.68) |
1.33
**
(1.12–1.57) |
1.92
***
(1.50–2.46) |
4.00
**
(1.79–8.95) |
1.63
**
(1.22–2.17) |
2.95
***
(2.46–3.54) |
1.40
**
(1.11–1.76) |
1.54
***
(1.29–1.84) |
0.85
(0.56–1.31) |
2.22
***
(1.44–3.41) |
NA |
RC Reference category; hhousehold wealth quintile; mMuslim and others including traditionalist, animist, no religion; AOR adjusted odds ratio; NA data not available, *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05F