Non-partner sexual violence experience and toilet type amongst young (18–24) women in South Africa: A population-based cross-sectional analysis

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Table 1. Descriptive associations between potential risk factors, non-partner sexual violence experience and toilet types.

	Overall	Own toilet (inside)	Own toilet (outside)	Shared toilet	None (bush or field)
	%/mean (n/95%CI)	%/mean (95%CI)	%/mean (95%CI)	%/mean (95%CI)	%/mean (95%CI)	p-value
		49.1(47.2, 51.0)	21.2(19.4, 23.0)	29.2(27.6, 30.8)	0.6(0.5, 0.8)
Age
18/20	45.0(5060)	45.4(43.9, 46.9)	44.9(42.9 47.0)	44.1(42.3, 46.0)	55.7(44.7, 66.1)	0.270
21/24	55.0(5573)	54.6(53.1, 56.1)	55.1(53.0, 57.1)	55.9(54.0, 57.7)	44.8(34.3, 55.8)
Education
Not completed Grade 12	32.3(3241)	30.2(28.7, 31.8)	39.7(37.4, 52.8)	31.2(29.1, 33.3)	34.1(23.8, 46.1)	<0.001
Completed Grade 12	67.7(6726)	69.8(68.2, 71.3)	60.3(57.5, 63.1)	68.8(66.7, 70.9)	65.9(53.9, 76.2)
Other factors
Food insecurity (>=more food secure)	7.61(7.54, 7.68)	7.80(7.82, 7.89)	7.43(7.27, 7.59)***	7.43(7.30, 7.56)***	6.83(6.07, 7.60)**
Alcohol (>=more alcohol use)	0.75(0.72, 0.79)	1.12(1.04, 1.19)	0.87(0.76, 0.98)***	1.05(0.96, 1.15)	0.69(0.22, 1.16)
Past year non-partner sexual violence	5.7(568)	4.8(4.2, 5.6)	5.5(4.4, 6.7)	7.2(6.2, 8.3)	7.1(2.7, 17.4)	0.001

For continuous variables with ‘own toilet (inside)’ as reference: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.

Table 2. Unadjusted and adjusted associations between non-partner sexual violence and toilet type.

	OR(95%CI)^a	p-value	aOR(95%CI)^b	p-value
Own toilet (indoors)	ref		ref
Own toilet (outside)	1.13(0.87, 1.48)	0.359	1.09(0.83, 1.44)	0.542
Shared toilet	1.51(1.23, 1.86)	<0.001	1.45(1.17, 1.80)	0.001
None (bush or field)	1.50(0.54, 4.16)	0.438	1.43(0.53, 3.81)	0.477

^an = 10,442 degrees of freedom 1307, and p = 0.0012; ^bn = 9,885, degrees freedom 1,297, p<0.001. Adjusted models, include age, education, alcohol use and food insecurity. All models take into account the survey structure.