Attitude towards the Practice of Female Genital Cutting among School Boys and Girls in Somali and Harari Regions, Eastern Ethiopia

Table 5

A logistic regression analysis for the association of the attitude favoring/not favoring FGC with different categorical variables in Somali and Harari regions, Eastern Ethiopia.

Variables	Not in favour of FGC	In favour of FGC	COR at 95% CI	AOR at 95% CI	value
Gender
Male	206 (88.8%)	26 (11.2%)	1	1
Female	204 (82.9)	42 (17.1)	1.631 (0.964–2.760)	2.19 (1.24–3.85)
Educational status
Primary	191 (83.8%)	37 (16.2%)	1
Secondary	219 (87.6%)	31 (12.4%)	1.37 (0.82–2.29)	1.37 (0.78–2.41)
Regions
Harari	221 (92%)	19 (8%)	1	1
Somali	189 (79.4%)	47 (20.6%)	3.016	1.38 (0.73–2.59)
Religion
Muslim	246 (79.6%)	63 (20.4%)	8.400	7.29 (2.67–19.89)
Other religion	164 (97%)	5 (3.0%)	1	1
Age
16–18	338 (87.1%)	50 (12.9%)	1	1
19–22	72 (80.0%)	18 (20.0%)	1.690 (0.931–3.066)	1.77 (0.90–3.48)

tatistically significant at . eference categories are denoted by 1.0.