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Table 1 Result of multilevel ordinal logistic regression on HIV knowledge among youths in Ethiopia, EDHS 2016

From: HIV knowledge and associated factors among young Ethiopians: application of multilevel order logistic regression using the 2016 EDHS

Predictors

Odds Ratio

Robust Std. Err.

z

P > z

[95% Conf. Int.]

Residence

 Urban (Ref.)

 Rural

0.7195

0.0675

−3.5100

0.0000

0.5987

0.8647

Educational

 No Education (Ref.)

 Primary

2.1839

0.1865

9.1500

0.0000

1.8474

2.5817

 Secondary

3.3879

0.3827

10.8000

0.0000

2.7150

4.2274

 Higher

3.8515

0.5410

9.6000

0.0000

2.9245

5.0722

Owns mobile

 No (Ref.)

 Yes

1.2757

0.0576

5.3900

0.0000

1.1676

1.3938

HIV test

 No (Ref.)

 Yes

1.5186

0.1142

5.5500

0.0000

1.3105

1.7599

Freq. of listening radio

 Not at all (Ref.)

 < 1 a week

1.2421

0.0581

4.6400

0.0000

1.1333

1.3612

 > = a week

1.2760

0.1159

2.6800

0.0070

1.0679

1.5247

Freq. of watching TV

 Not at all (Ref.)

 < 1 a week

1.1958

0.0832

2.5700

0.0100

1.0433

1.3706

 > = a week

1.4241

0.1206

4.1800

0.0000

1.2064

1.6813

Health insurance

 No (Ref.)

 Yes

1.4485

0.1317

4.0700

0.0000

1.2120

1.7311

Respondent’s sex

 Female (Ref.)

 Male

1.8500

0.1050

10.8400

0.0000

1.6553

2.0675

Religion

 Orthodox (Ref.)

 Protestant

0.7143

0.0922

−2.6100

0.0090

0.5547

0.9198

 Muslim

0.7454

0.0998

−2.1900

0.0280

0.5734

0.9691

 Other

0.6670

0.1166

−2.3200

0.0210

0.4735

0.9396

Marital Status

 Never in a union (Ref.)

 Married

0.7918

0.0493

−3.7500

0.0000

0.7009

0.8945

 Other

0.9572

0.1094

−0.3800

0.7020

0.7652

1.1975

/cut1a

−0.2286

0.1383

−1.6500

0.0980

−0.4996

0.0424

/cut2

2.4053

0.1398

17.2100

0.0000

2.1314

2.6792

Region

 var.(_cons)

0.1659

0.1035

  

0.0488

0.5637

  1. a_cut1 – This is the estimated cut point on the latent variable used to differentiate low level of knowledge of HIV from moderate and comprehensive level of knowledge of HIV when values of the predictor variables are evaluated at zero.
  2. _cut2 – This is the estimated cut point on the latent variable used to differentiate low and moderate level of knowledge of HIV from comprehensive level of knowledge of HIV when values of the predictor variables are evaluated at zero.