Table 3 Bivariate association between early sexual debut and selected individual compositional and community contextual characteristics of ever or currently married Nigerian women, 2003*
Early sexual debut | |||
|---|---|---|---|
No [%(n)] | Yes [%(n)] | p-value | |
Individual characteristics | |||
Age (completed years) | .001 | ||
15 – 24 | 46.6 (640) | 53.4 (735) | |
25 – 34 | 56.0 (1159) | 44.0 (910) | |
35+ | 50.6 (1057) | 49.4 (1030) | |
Education | .001 | ||
No education | 35.3 (1013) | 64.7 (1856) | |
Primary | 57.1 (724) | 42.9 (543) | |
Secondary or higher | 80.2 (1119) | 19.8 (276) | |
Ethnicity | .001 | ||
Hausa/Fulani | 29.2 (606) | 70.8 (1467) | |
Igbo | 76.7 (578) | 23.3 (176) | |
Yoruba | 85.5 (541) | 14.5 (92) | |
Others | 54.7 (1122) | 45.3 (930) | |
Religion | .001 | ||
Christian | 69.9 (1593) | 38.1 (686) | |
Islam | 38.4 (1202) | 61.6 (1932) | |
Others | 52.6 (60) | 47.4 (54) | |
Community characteristics | .001 | ||
Type of residence | |||
Urban | 60.7 (1247) | 39.3 (807) | |
Rural | 46.3 (1609) | 53.7 (1868) | |
Community ethnic diversity†, Mean (SD) | 3.5 (2.6) | 3.9 (2.5) | .001 |
Community median age of marriage, Mean (SD) | 17.5 (2.5) | 15.4 (1.9) | .001 |
Community median spousal age gap, Mean (SD) | 9.3 (2.3) | 10.2 (1.8) | .001 |
Geopolitical region | .001 | ||
North-central | 60.4 (553) | 39.6 (363) | |
North-east | 38.1 (523) | 61.9 (750) | |
North-west | 32.0 (523) | 67.8 (1101) | |
South-east | 78.5 (442) | 21.5 (121) | |
South-south | 58.8 (314) | 41.2 (220) | |
South-west | 82.4 (562) | 17.6 (120) | |