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

Table 5

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

Level of alcohol use		B	Wald	Sig.	AOR	95% Confidence interval for AOR
						Lower bound	Upper bound
Dependent drinking/moderate dinking	Intercept	1.184	9.624	0.002	2.747	1.489	5.068
	Male	1.010	10.453	0.001
	Female	0^b	—	—
	Christian	−0.780	4.532	0.033	0.458	0.223	0.940
	Muslim	0.502	0.397	0.529	1.652	0.347	7.874
	Traditionalist	0^b	—	—	—	—	—
	Primary	−0.233	0.261	0.609	0.793	0.325	1.933
	JHS	0.060	0.014	0.905	1.062	0.396	2.847
	SHS	−0.547	1.376	0.241	0.579	0.232	1.443
	Tertiary	−1.491	7.181	0.007	0.225	0.076	0.670
	No formal education	0^b	—	—	—	—	—
	Artisan	−0.051	0.008	0.927	0.950	0.317	2.849
	Public servant	0.338	0.423	0.515	1.402	0.507	3.876
	Civil servant	1.492	4.905	0.027	4.445	1.187	16.646
	Unemployed	0^b	—	—	—	—	—
	Beer	−0.483	1.459	0.227	0.617	0.281	1.351
	Guinness	−0.307	0.428	0.513	0.736	0.294	1.845
	Paper wine	0.160	0.056	0.813	1.174	0.312	4.418
	Spirit	0.149	0.112	0.738	1.161	0.484	2.785
	Other local drinks	0^b	—	—	—	—	—

The reference category is a moderate drinker.