Table 6:
Factors associated with mobile phone ownership and other digital technology use on multivariate analysis.
| Variable | Reference category | Mobile phone ownership |
Smartphone ownership |
Use of social media |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aOR (95%CI) | p value | aOR (95%CI) | p value | aOR (95%CI) | p value | ||
| Education | Secondary versus primary | 2.92 (1.24–6.89 | 0.015 | 2.37 (1.11–5.7) | 0.026 | 0.44 (0.08–2.57) | 0.363 |
| Tertiary versus primary | 11.23 (3.32–38.04) | 0.000 | 1.92 (0.14–26.26) | 0.624 | |||
| Employment status | Employed versus unemployed | 2.76 (0.80–9.50) | 0.108 | 3.76 (1.47–9.65) | 0.006 | 0.32 (0.04–2.73) | 0.296 |
| Self-employed versus unemployed | 1.24 (0.54–2.85) | 0.618 | 1.29 (0.57–2.95) | 0.541 | 1.79 (0.34–9.49) | 0.493 | |
| Income level | Above Ksh 20,000 versus Below Ksh20,000 | 1.64 (0.42–6.50) | 0.479 | 3.05 (1.05–8.85) | 0.040 | 8.64 (0.77–96.54) | 0.080 |
| Marital status | Separated versus married | – | 0.56 (0.23–1.39) | 0.212 | 0.01 (0.00–0.16) | 0.001 | |
| Single versus married | – | 1.04 (0.42–2.55) | 0.936 | 0.08 (0.01–0.51) | 0.007 | ||
| Mobile phone ownership | Mobile phone versus no phone | – | – | 3.07 (0.50–18.94) | 0.264 | ||
| Smartphone ownership | Smartphone versus no smartphone | – | – | 1769 (86–36,390) | <0.001 | ||