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Table 4 Factors that explained urban-rural disparities in disagreement with wife-beating in Senegal using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method: Evidence from 2017 Senegal C-DHS

From: Urban-rural disparities in wife-beating attitude among married women: a decomposition analysis from the 2017 Senegal Continuous Demographic and Health Survey

Wife-beating attitude (Disagreed with wife beating)

Coefficients (95% CI)

P. Value

Urban

0.69 (0.66, 0.72)

< 0.001

Rural

0.36 (0.33, 0.39)

< 0.001

Difference

0.33 (0.29, 0.37)

< 0.001

Explained

0.29 (0.24, 0.33)

< 0.001

Unexplained

0.05 (−0.02, 0.11)

0.140

Factors that explained urban-rural disparities for disagreed with wife-beating

 Employment for cash

−0.01 (− 0.02, 0.01)

0.105

 Media exposure

0.01 (0.003, 0.014)

0.003

 Women education

0.04 (0.02, 0.05)

< 0.001

 Wealth quintile

0.13 (0.09, 0.17)

< 0.001

 Decision making

0.02 (0.01, 0.03)

0.001

 Religion

0.001 (−0.001, 0.003)

0.416

 Husband occupation

−0.002 (− 0.008, 0.004)

0.607

 Women’s age

0.01 (0.003, 0.013)

0.001

 Region

0.07 (0.05, 0.08)

< 0.001

 Partner educational level

0.03 (0.02, 0.05)

< 0.001