Table 2 Logistic regression examining the associations between age at first marriage and marital dissolution among women who did and did not experience child marriage
From: Child marriage, marital disruption, and marriage thereafter: evidence from a national survey
Variables | Marital dissolution (n = 53,931) | |
|---|---|---|
AOR (95% CI) | p | |
Child marriage | ||
 No | 1 |  |
 Yes | 11.20 (6.32–19.85) | < 0.01 |
Age at first marriage | 1.05 (1.03–1.07) | < 0.01 |
Age at first marriage # Child marriage¶ | 0.87 (0.84–0.90) | < 0.01 |
Women’s age at the time of the survey | 1.05 (1.04–1.05) | < 0.01 |
Women’s education | ||
 None | 1 |  |
 Primary | 0.76 (0.69–0.84) | < 0.01 |
 Secondary | 0.47 (0.42–0.52) | < 0.01 |
 Higher secondary or further | 0.38 (0.32–0.46) | < 0.01 |
Religion | ||
 Islam | 1 |  |
 Hindu | 0.54 (0.46–0.63) | < 0.01 |
 Other | 0.64 (0.33–1.25) | 0.19 |
Ethnicity | ||
 Bengali | 1 |  |
 Other | 1.07 (0.48–2.38) | 0.86 |
Wealth quintile | ||
 Poorest | 1 |  |
 Second | 0.85 (0.77–0.95) | < 0.01 |
 Middle | 0.69 (0.61–0.77) | < 0.01 |
 Fourth | 0.72 (0.64–0.82) | < 0.01 |
 Richest | 0.63 (0.54–0.73) | < 0.01 |
Ever given birth | ||
 Yes | 1 |  |
 No | 3.54 (3.14–3.99) | < 0.01 |
Residence | ||
 Urban | 1 |  |
 Rural | 0.81 (0.73–0.90) | < 0.01 |
Administrative region | ||
 Barishal | 1 |  |
 Chattogram | 1.53 (1.29–1.82) | < 0.01 |
 Dhaka | 1.37 (1.16–1.61) | < 0.01 |
 Khulna | 1.84 (1.56–2.16) | < 0.01 |
 Mymenshing | 1.27 (1.04–1.54) | < 0.02 |
 Rajshahi | 1.59 (1.35–1.88) | < 0.01 |
 Rangpur | 1.27 (1.07–1.51) | < 0.01 |
 Sylhet | 1.49 (1.23–1.80) | < 0.01 |
 Constant | 0.01 (0.006–0.02) | < 0.01 |