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Table 5 Factors associated with ever having penetrative sex for girls and boys

From: Illegal yet developmentally normative: a descriptive analysis of young, urban adolescents’ dating and sexual behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa

  Girls Boys
  OR 95% CI p OR 95% CI p
Age 1.354 0.562 – 3.263 0.450 1.331 0.747 – 2.371 0.286
SES (Live in a brick house) 2.592 1.244 – 5.402 0.017 0.831 0.197 – 3.506 0.774
Ever repeated a school year 2.823 0.614 – 12.972 0.155 1.588 0.710 – 3.554 0.222
Never dated 0.330 0.143 – 0.761 0.016 0.162 0.049 – 0.537 0.008
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