Early Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing in West Africa

Table 3

Odds ratios of discrete-time logistic regression estimates of first childbearing among adolescents in Nigeria (), Niger (), and Burkina Faso (2690).

Variables	Model 1			Model 2
	Nigeria	Burkina Faso	Niger	Nigeria	Burkina Faso	Niger
Community-level variables
Percentage of women educated
Low	1	1	1	1	1	1
Medium	1.068	1.411	0.775	0.551	1.526	0.859
High	1.165	1.563	0.918	0.514^+	1.766	1.218
Percentage of poor women
Low	1	1		1	1	1
Medium	2.643	0.836	0.885	1.383	0.807	0.707
High	2.313	0.696	1.08	0.62	0.744	0.764
Percentage of working women
Low	1	1		1		1
Medium	1.945	1.233	1.95^+	1.35	1.225	1.967^+
High	2.609	1.121	1.456	1.676^+	1.106	1.553
Respondent’s education
None				1	1	1
Primary				0.875	1.751^+	0.975
Secondary/higher				0.396	0.354	0.466
Wealth index
Poorest				1	1	1
Poorer				0.491	2.841	0.858
Middle				0.371	2.387	0.932
Richer				0.304	1.682	0.618
Richest				0.239	1.083	0.569
Religion
Muslim				1	1	1
Christian				4.357	1.046
Region
Northern				1	1	1
Southern				2.462	1.182	0.461
Sex of household health
Male				1	1	1
Female				1.711	1.021	1.007
Place of residence
Urban				1	1	1
Rural				2.722	0.543	0.955
N (person-years)	50169	19918	11426	50169	19918	11426

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