Sociodemographic Correlates of Alcohol Abuse in Kassena-Nankana Municipality, Ghana

Table 4

Multinomial logistics regression model for the level of alcohol use and independent variables (first coefficient table).

Level of alcohol use		B	Wald	Sig.	AOR	95% confidence interval for AOR
						Lower bound	Upper bound
Harmful drinking/moderate drinking	Intercept	−0.299	0.399	0.528	2.369	1.175	4.776
	Male	0.862	5.811	0.016
	Female	0^b	—	—
	Christian	−0.364	0.703	0.402	0.695	0.297	1.627
	Muslim	0.502	0.324	0.569	1.652	0.293	9.305
	Traditionalist	0^b	—	—	—	—	—
	Primary	−0.771	1.699	0.192	0.462	0.145	1.475
	JHS	0.718	1.771	0.183	2.050	0.712	5.900
	SHS	−0.430	0.660	0.417	0.650	0.230	1.837
	Tertiary	−0.703	1.319	0.251	0.495	0.149	1.644
	No formal education	0^b	—	—	—	—	—
	Artisan	0.687	1.437	0.231	1.987	0.647	6.104
	Public servant	−0.175	0.095	0.758	0.839	0.275	2.558
	Civil servant	0.148	0.034	0.853	1.160	0.241	5.576
	Unemployed	0^b	—	—	—	—	—
	Beer	0.397	0.714	0.398	1.487	0.592	3.732
	Guinness	0.149	0.071	0.789	1.161	0.389	3.465
	Paper wine	−0.283	0.105	0.746	0.754	0.136	4.182
	Spirit	0.136	0.061	0.805	1.146	0.388	3.386
	Other local drinks	0^b	—	—	—	—	—

The reference category is a moderate drinker.