Table 2.
Partner- and couple’s-related variables and prevalence of unhappiness (based on women’s report)
| Selected variables | Total of women (N, %) |
Prevalence unhappiness (n, %) | X2 P-value* |
Selected variables | Total of women (N, %) |
Prevalence unhappiness (n, %) |
X2 P-value* |
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| Partner- and couple’s-related variables | Partner’s and family support to pregnancy (if partner accepted pregnancy N = 1504) | ||||||||||||
| Resid with partner same hhd | Yes | 927 | 74.9 | 194 | 20.9 | 0.657 | Partner is helping in this pregnancy | Yes | 1,441 | 95.8 | 328 | 22.8 | 0.606 |
| No | 51 | 4.1 | 12 | 23.5 | No | 47 | 3.1 | 17 | 36.2 | ||||
| Missing | 259 | 20.9 | 54 | 20.8 | Some times | 16 | 1.1 | 8 | 50.0 | ||||
| Age of partner, if married | 15–24 | 65 | 5.3 | 11 | 16.9 | 0.721 | Partner is physically present in preg | Yes | 1385 | 92.1 | 306 | 22.1 | 0.693 |
| 25–64 | 528 | 42.7 | 99 | 18.8 | No | 75 | 5.0 | 31 | 41.3 | ||||
| Missing | 644 | 52.1 | 150 | 23.3 | Some times | 44 | 2.9 | 16 | 36.4 | ||||
| Couple have talked about childbirth | Yes | 1,213 | 78.5 | 215 | 17.7 | 0.000 | Partner is emotionally present in preg | Yes | 1433 | 95.3 | 320 | 22.3 | 0.627 |
| No | 333 | 21.5 | 163 | 48.9 | No | 54 | 3.6 | 27 | 50.0 | ||||
| Partner pregnancy intentional | Intentional | 1140 | 73.7 | 156 | 13.7 | 0.000 | Some times | 17.0 | 1.1 | 6 | 35.3 | ||
| Unintentional | 360 | 23.3 | 195 | 54.2 | Partner is economically present in preg | Yes | 1423 | 94.6 | 315 | 22.1 | 0.806 | ||
| Don’t know | 46 | 3.0 | 27 | 58.7 | No | 54 | 3.6 | 25 | 46.3 | ||||
| Partner happy with pregnancy | Yes | 1237 | 80.0 | 180 | 14.6 | 0.000 | Some times | 27 | 1.8 | 13 | 48.1 | ||
| No | 262 | 16.9 | 183 | 69.8 | His family helping in this pregnancy | Yes | 1128 | 75.0 | 237 | 21.0 | 0.137 | ||
| Do not know | 47 | 3.0 | 15 | 31.9 | No | 267 | 17.8 | 86 | 32.2 | ||||
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Why partner happy (N = 1237) |
Wanted + kids | 270 | 21.8 | 28 | 10.4 | 0.001 | Some times | 109 | 7.3 | 30 | 27.5 | ||
| Blessing/good surprise | 27 | 2.2 | 0 | 0.0 | Your family is helping in pregnancy | Yes | 1299 | 86.4 | 290 | 22.3 | 0.240 | ||
| Satisfy family | 95 | 7.7 | 11 | 11.6 | No | 130 | 8.6 | 37 | 28.5 | ||||
| Desper for child | 33 | 2.7 | 2 | 6.1 | Some times | 75 | 5.0 | 26 | 34.7 | ||||
| Wanted a child | 532 | 43.0 | 86 | 16.2 | Perception of abandonment, if partner rejected pregnancy (N = 41) | ||||||||
| First time father | 148 | 11.96 | 32 | 21.6 | Felt abandoned because of this pregnancy | Yes | 21 | 50.0 | Values not presented due to small “n” | ||||
| Don’t know/mis | 132 | 10.67 | 21 | 15.9 | No | 19 | 45.2 | ||||||
| Why husband unhappy (N = 262) | Unplanned | 76 | 29.0 | 65 | 85.5 | 0.042 | Some times | 2 | 4.8 | ||||
| Want no + kids | 3 | 1.2 | 1 | 33.3 | Who abandoned women (N = 21) | Partner | 14 | 66.7 | Values not presented due to small “n” | ||||
| Short birth intrv | 9 | 3.4 | 7 | 77.8 | |||||||||
| Unwantd/unds | 79 | 30.2 | 51 | 64.6 | Relatives | 7 | 33.3 | ||||||
| Have kids outsd | 3 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Dubious partnr | 3 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Don’t know/mis | 89 | 34.0 | 57 | 64.0 | |||||||||
| Partner accepted this pregnancy | Yes | 1505 | 97.3 | 353 | 23.5 | 0.101 | |||||||
| No | 41 | 2.7 | 25 | 61.0 | |||||||||
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Why partner rejected (N = 41) |
Said was not his | 14 | 34.2 | Values not presented due to small “n” | |||||||||
| Did not want | 16 | 39.0 | |||||||||||
| Don’t know | 11 | 26.8 | |||||||||||
Variable “Resid with partner same hhd” stands for “Women resid with partner in the same household”
In variable “Why partner was happy”, option “Wanted + kids” stands for “Wanted more children”; option “Blessing/surprise” stands for “The pregnancy represented a blessing, or a good surprise”; option “Satisfy family/ki” stands for “He wanted to satisfy his family or his children”; option “Desperat for kid” stands for “Has been looking for children and was already desperate for having children”; option “Wanted a child” stands for “He wanted a child”; option n “First time father” means “partner was happy because he was going to be a father for the first time in his life”
In variable “Why husband unhappy”, option “Want no + kids” stands for “Wanted no more children”; option “Short birth intrv” stands for “The woman got pregnant while she had a too young baby”, which we termed “short birth interval”; option “Unwantd/unds” stands for “Unwanted or undesired pregnancy”; option “Have kids outsd” stands for “This man is unhappy because has children (or a child) outside this union”; option “Dubious partnr” represents the man who is unhappy because he thinks the pregnancy was not caused by him
#All the measurement of partner variables are based on female respondent’s report
*Pearson X2 test p-value for comparisons of prevalence of unhappiness between categories of women. Where covariates have a category with missing or unknown values, the X2 was estimated omitting these categories