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Table 4 Kaplan–Meier failure estimate and log rank test comparison of time to first birth among women in high fertility countries in SSA (n = 186,771)

From: Time to first birth and its predictors among reproductive age women in high fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Inverse Weibull gamma shared frailty model

Characteristics

Categories

N (%) weighted value

Ever given birth

Median (IQR) years

Log rank

P-value

Residence

Urban

70578

46387

19(17,22)

1472.71

0.001

Rural

116193

91025

18(16,21)

  

Age at first sex

< 15

50831

18696

16(15,18)

21539.05

0.001

15–17

98154

87416

18(16,20)

  

≥ 18

37676

31243

21(20, 24)

  

Age at first marriage

< 15

26353

25203

15(14,16)

77828.67

0.001

15–17

50350

46879

17(16,18)

  

≥ 18

64287

59407

21(19,24)

  

Spousal age gap

< 5

32419

30425

20(17,22)

2388.29

0.001

≥ 5

95569

28908

18(16,21)

  

Demand for contraceptive

No demand

64001

27518

18(16,22)

159.94

 

Unmet need

35719

32840

18(17,21)

  

Meet need

87051

77053

19(17,21)

  

Occupation of the respondent

No working

53239

32316

18(16,21)

699.5

0.001

Agricultural employee

48580

40676

19(17,21)

  

Nonagricultural employee

84952

64419

19(16,22)

  

Hearing FP massage on media

Yes

132333

98545

18(16,21)

87.42

0.001

No

54438

38866

19(16,21)

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