Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone: Forms, Reliability of Reported Status, and Accuracy of Related Demographic and Health Survey Questions

Table 3

Results of univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses for the outcome variable FGM.

	Univariate			Multivariable
	OR	(95% CI)		OR	(95% CI)
Age	1.10	1.05	1.14***	0.99	0.92	1.07
Number previous pregnancy	1.59	1.30	1.94***	1.41	1.03	1.93*
Residency	1.61	1.05	2.47*	1.98	1.21	3.22**
Ethnic group^a	0.97	0.64	1.49
Civil status married (Ref.)
Single	0.31	0.20	0.48***	0.55	0.32	0.93*
Others	0.39	0.10	1.53	0.63	0.14	2.91
Religion Muslim (Ref.)	2.09	1.36	3.21**	2.09	1.28	3.39**
Education illiterate (Ref)
Primary	0.75	0.35	1.60	1.00	0.45	2.20
Junior Secondary School	0.25	0.14	0.45***	0.48	0.25	0.92*
Senior Secondary School	0.16	0.82	0.33***	0.31	0.14	0.66**
Tertiary	0.68	0.22	2.15	0.97	0.30	3.12

^∗𝑃<0.05  ^∗∗𝑃<0.01  ^∗∗∗𝑃<0.001.
^aEthnicity was tested both by each ethnic group and Temne compared to all others, both tests not significant.
All variables with 𝑃<0.1 were included in the multivariable model.