Table 2 Socio-behavioural predictors of HIV that are included in the analysis
From: Use of unsupervised machine learning to characterise HIV predictors in sub-Saharan Africa
Variable | Categories | Males | Females |
|---|---|---|---|
Average age of respondent | 31.8 | 32.1 | |
work for payment last 12 months (%) | no | 45.5 | 66.3 |
yes | 54.5 | 33.7 | |
Ever married or lived together (%) | no | 43.5 | 30.6 |
yes | 56.5 | 69.4 | |
Delaying or avoiding getting pregnant (%) | no | 55.2 | 57 |
yes | 44.6 | 42.5 | |
Circumcision status (%) | yes | 60.3 | |
no | 39.7 | ||
First age engaging at sex | 18.2 | 17.9 | |
Ever visited TB clinic for treatment (%) | no | 92.2 | 92.5 |
yes | 7.7 | 7.3 | |
Urban area indicator (%) | rural | 55.7 | 56 |
urban | 44.3 | 44 | |
Average wealthscorecont | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
Relationship to household head (%) | Brother/sister | 4.6 | 3.9 |
Grandchild | 4.1 | 3.2 | |
Head | 51.8 | 26 | |
Not related | 3.2 | 2.5 | |
other relative | 6.1 | 5.9 | |
son or daughter | 23.7 | 2.7 | |
wife/husband/partner | 4.3 | 35.2 | |
parent | 1.3 | ||
Enrolled in school (%) | no | 76.9 | |
yes | 17.6 | ||
Average number of times been pregnant | 3.1 | ||
Average number of children had since 2012 | 0.7 |