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Published in: AIDS and Behavior 4/2006

01-07-2006

The Babel Effect: Community Linguistic Diversity and Extramarital Sex in Uganda

Authors: David Bishai, Priya Patil, George Pariyo, Ken Hill

Published in: AIDS and Behavior | Issue 4/2006

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Abstract

We examine the association of community linguistic diversity with non-spousal sexual activity in Uganda. We conducted a survey on rates of sexual contact in last 12 months among 1709 respondents age 18–60 living in Uganda in early 2001. Households were selected at random from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2000 household sampling frame listings in 12 districts and 120 clusters. Household listings described the principal language spoken by every household in the cluster. Sexual contact was reported by 26 vs. 13% of unmarried women in multilingual vs. monolingual clusters respectively. Extramarital sexual contact occurred for 29 vs. 16% for married men in multilingual vs. monolingual clusters respectively. These results were robust to multivariate models which included confounders such as urbanity, and cluster distance to market places, cinemas, and transportation. Our results suggest a robust association between residence in a multilinguistic community and higher rates of non-spousal sex.
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This strategy is not perfect because in Uganda there are groups that claim differing ethnicity, but share common language. If anything, this limitation makes it less likely that we will confirm our hypothesis, because there could be ethnic variation that is not captured by a measure of language variation.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Babel Effect: Community Linguistic Diversity and Extramarital Sex in Uganda
Authors
David Bishai
Priya Patil
George Pariyo
Ken Hill
Publication date
01-07-2006
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
AIDS and Behavior / Issue 4/2006
Print ISSN: 1090-7165
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3254
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-006-9097-3

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