Life expectations in early adolescence and the timing of first sex and marriage: evidence from a longitudinal survey in Ethiopia

Table 4 Parameter estimates from logistic regression models predicting lost to follow-up, males and females, JLFSY 2005–2010

	Males	Females
Life expectations (age 13–17)
Career expectations	0.169	− 0.200**
Expected age at marriage		0.028
Personal autonomy	0.118	− 0.100
Gender equality	− 0.102	− 0.087
School participation
Membership in youth clubs (age 13–17)	0.044	− 0.031
Family and community environment (age 13–17)
Religiosity	− 0.070	0.118
Parents’ desired age of daughter’s marriage		− 0.040*
Parents’ highest year of schooling	0.037**	− 0.003
Household wealth	0.033	− 0.067
Female headed house	0.354	− 0.060
City	− 0.437	0.515
Town	− 0.451*	0.324
Rural (ref.)
Number of observations	1032	1000
Pseudo R²	0.016	0.016

Robust standard errors adjusted for clustering at the community level, sample weights applied
*P < 0.10, **P < 0.05, ***P < 0.01

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