Table 2.
Multivariable ordinal logistic regression models of abortion attitudes in the case of fetal anomaly and in the case of poverty from 2007 to 2016.
| Fetal Anomaly (N = 20,711) F = 18.38, p < .001 | Poverty (N = 20,711) F = 17.71, p < .001 | |||||
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| Year | 0.97 | .001 | 0.01 | 1.03 | .003 | 0.01 |
| Religiosity (Reference: Less than several times a year) | ||||||
| Several Times a Year | 0.89 | .137 | 0.07 | 0.91 | .314 | 0.08 |
| 1–3 Times per Month | 0.97 | .695 | 0.07 | 0.95 | .555 | 0.08 |
| Once a Week or More | 0.85 | .015 | 0.06 | 0.83 | .018 | 0.06 |
| Premarital Sex Attitudes (Reference: Always Wrong) | ||||||
| Almost Always Wrong | 2.13 | <.001 | 0.14 | 2.65 | <.001 | 0.21 |
| Wrong Only Sometimes | 2.61 | <.001 | 0.15 | 2.65 | <.001 | 0.19 |
| Not Wrong At All | 2.64 | <.001 | 0.16 | 2.47 | <.001 | 0.17 |
| Preferential Hiring and Promotion for Women Attitudes (Referenc e: Disagree/Strongly Disagree) | ||||||
| Neutral | 1.01 | .856 | 0.07 | 1.28 | .006 | 0.12 |
| Agree/Strongly Agree | 1.04 | .533 | 0.07 | 1.15 | .075 | 0.09 |
| Female | 1.07 | .122 | 0.04 | 1.02 | .722 | 0.05 |
| Race/Ethnicity (Reference: African) | ||||||
| Colored | 1.10 | .185 | 0.08 | 0.82 | .025 | 0.07 |
| Indian | 1.43 | <.001 | 0.14 | 1.29 | .022 | 0.14 |
| White | 1.76 | <.001 | 0.14 | 0.92 | .4 | 0.09 |
| Education (Reference: Primary or Less) | ||||||
| Some Secondary | 1.26 | <.001 | 0.08 | 1.24 | .004 | 0.09 |
| Completed Secondary | 1.31 | <.001 | 0.09 | 1.45 | <.001 | 0.12 |
| Some Tertiary | 1.72 | <.001 | 0.15 | 1.70 | <.001 | 0.18 |
| Household Monthly Income | ||||||
| 1501–7500 Rand | 1.08 | .136 | 0.06 | 1.06 | .364 | 0.07 |
| More than 7500 Rand | 1.02 | .835 | 0.08 | 0.96 | .674 | 0.09 |
| Missing/Refused | 0.94 | .327 | 0.06 | 0.84 | .036 | 0.07 |
| Age | 1.00 | .366 | 0.002 | 1.00 | .347 | 0.002 |
| Urbanicity (Reference: Urban-Formal) | ||||||
| Urban-Informal | 0.84 | .075 | 0.08 | 1.04 | .692 | 0.11 |
| Rural | 0.94 | .305 | 0.06 | 1.04 | .572 | 0.07 |
| Religious Denomination (Reference: Not Religious) | ||||||
| Protestant | 1.10 | .199 | 0.08 | 1.03 | .739 | 0.09 |
| Catholic | 1.13 | .247 | 0.12 | 1.07 | .625 | 0.14 |
| Other | 1.13 | .197 | 0.11 | 1.01 | .916 | 0.11 |
| Political Identity (Reference: Conservative) | ||||||
| Moderate | 0.82 | .007 | 0.06 | 0.84 | .053 | 0.07 |
| Liberal | 1.00 | .995 | 0.07 | 1.05 | .598 | 0.09 |
| Don’t Know | 1.00 | .999 | 0.07 | 1.00 | .958 | 0.09 |
| Marital Status (Reference: Married) | ||||||
| Widowed/Widower | 0.93 | .391 | 0.08 | 0.87 | .178 | 0.09 |
| Divorced/Separated | 0.94 | .451 | 0.08 | 1.17 | .137 | 0.12 |
| Never Married | 0.93 | .162 | 0.05 | 1.01 | .895 | 0.06 |
| Income Differences are Too Large (Reference: Disagree/Strongly Disagree) | ||||||
| Neutral | 0.59 | <.001 | 0.07 | 1.06 | .677 | 0.15 |
| Agree/Strongly Agree | 0.71 | <.001 | 0.06 | 0.70 | .001 | 0.08 |
| Missing | 0.55 | .002 | 0.10 | 0.43 | <.001 | 0.10 |
Models also control for province of residence; significantly higher and lower odds italicized and bolded.