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Table 4 Weighted multilevel logistic regression of the association between unintended pregnancies and individual-level and municipality-level characteristics in Nicaraguan women

From: Violence against women and unintended pregnancies in Nicaragua: a population-based multilevel study

 

1. Empty model

2. Model with individual-level variables

3. Model with individual-level and municipality-level variables

Measures of association (AOR, 95% CrI)*

     

Individual-level variables

     

Controlling behavior by a partner (yes)

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1.28

(1.10–1.50)

1.26

(1.08–1.47)

Ever sexual abuse by any person (yes)

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1.26

(0.99–1.61)

1.25

(0.98–1.60)

Ever physical/sexual IPV (yes)

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1.44

(1.21–1.71)

1.43

(1.20–1.70)

Area-level variables

     

% of women exposed to controlling behavior by a partner

     

Lowest tertile

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---

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1.00

 

Middle tertile

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---

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1.08

(0.86–1.35)

Highest tertile

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---

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1.27

(1.06–1.53)

% of women exposed to sexual violence by any person

     

Lowest tertile

---

---

---

1.00

 

Middle tertile

---

---

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1.04

(0.84–1.29)

Highest tertile

---

---

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1.10

(0.88–1.37)

% of women exposed to physical/sexual IPV

     

Lowest tertile

---

---

---

1.00

 

Middle tertile

---

---

---

1.03

(0.84–1.25)

Highest tertile

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---

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1.10

(0.84–1.43)

Measures of clustering

     

Area-level variance (SD)

0.095 (0.027)

0.079 (0.025)

0.054 (0.022)

PCV

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−16%

−31%

MOR

1.34

1.30

1.24

VPC

0.028

0.023

0.016

  1. *Adjusted by residency, age, education, socioeconomic status, ever use of modern contraceptive methods, % of women using modern contraceptive methods at the municipality level, % of women illiterate at the municipality level, and % of the population living in extreme poverty at the municipality level. PCV = percentage of change in variance. MOR = median odds ratio. VPC = variance partition coefficient.
  2. Second-order penalized quasi-likelihood linearization estimates and measures of association and clustering are shown. n = 5347.