TABLE 1. Characteristics of the sampled couples: Chitwan, Nepal.

Variable and categories	Mean	SD	Min.	Max.
Support of parents
Gave to husband's parents	0.66		0	1
Gave to wife's parents	0.35		0	1
Schooling (education)
Husband's years of schooling, before married	5.77	5.41	0	22
Wife's years of schooling, before married	2.95	4.47	0	20
Exposure to schools
School within five minute walk, year before married	0.32		0	1
Resource availability
Wealth measures (1996)
Family owns land house is on	0.86		0	1
Number of livestock owned	4.18		0	41
Number of consumer durables owned	1.75		0	8
Number of storeys of house	1.58		1	5
Total number of children born by 1996	3.97		0	15
Ever worked for pay in year before married
Husband worked for pay	0.53	0.50	0	1
Wife worked for pay	0.20	0.40	0	1
Community characteristics year before married	0.80	1.21	0	5
Parents' attributes (as of 1996)
Husband's father ever went to school	1.63		0	1
Husband's father ever worked outside the family for pay	0.43		0	1
Number of children ever born to husband's mother	5.78		1	16
Wife's father ever went to school	0.26		0	1
Wife's father ever worked outside the family for pay.	0.41		0	1
Number of children ever born wife's mother	6.12		1	18
Cohort
Born 1972-1979 (aged 17-24 years in 1996)	0.07		0	1
Born 1962-1971 (aged 25-34 years in 1996)	0.31		0	1
Born 1952-1961 (aged 35-44 years in 1996)	0.27		0	1
Born 1942-1951- (aged 45-54 years in 1996)	0.28		0	1
Born 1941 or earlier (aged 55+ years in 1996)	0.15		0	1
Ethnicity
High-caste Hindu	0.47		0	1
Low-caste Hindu	0.12		0	1
Newar	0.06		0	1
Hill Tibeto-Burmese	0.18		0	1
Terai Tibeto-Burmese	0.18		0	1
Wife of different ethnicity	0.03		0	1
Has more than one wife	0.02		0	1
Lived in neighborhood year before married	0.40		0	1

Notes: Sample size 1,487 couples. Figures are proportions unless stated as counts (years or children). SD standard deviation. Min. minimum. Max. maximum.