TABLE 3.
Multilevel logistic regression estimates of the relationship between exposure to schools and couple's support of their parents, Chitwan, Nepal
| Support for husband's parents | Support for wife's parents | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | |||
| Variables | OR | z | OR | z |
| Couple had school within five minutes walk1 | 1.14 | 0.91 | 0.76* | -2.05 |
| Controls | ||||
| Resource availability | ||||
| Wealth measures: | ||||
| Family owns land house is on | 0.76 | -1.45 | 1.01 | 0.07 |
| Number of livestock owned | 1.00 | -0.23 | 0.98 | -1.28 |
| Number of consumer durables owned | 1.04 | 0.80 | 1.07 | 1.41 |
| Number of house storeys | 1.22* | 1.77 | 0.98 | -0.21 |
| Total number of children born | 0.99 | -0.18 | 0.98 | -0.71 |
| Ever worked for pay year before married | ||||
| Husband worked for pay | 1.15 | 1.14 | 1.02 | 0.15 |
| Wife worked for pay | 0.98 | -0.10 | 1.09 | 0.57 |
| Community characteristics year before married | 0.97 | -0.42 | 1.09 | 1.48 |
| Parental characteristics: | ||||
| Husband's father ever went to school | 1.02 | 0.10 | 0.75* | -1.71 |
| Husband's father ever in paid work outside family | 1.24* | 1.77 | 1.08 | 0.63 |
| Husband's mother's children ever born | 1.02 | 0.85 | 1.00 | 0.09 |
| Wife's father ever went to school | 1.01 | 0.08 | 1.00 | 0.03 |
| Wife's father ever in paid work outside family | 1.16 | 1.23 | 1.42** | 2.92 |
| Wife's mother's children ever born | 1.03 | 1.30 | 1.03* | 1.65 |
| Cohort:2 | ||||
| Born 1972-1979 (age 17-24 years) | 2.41* | 2.31 | 0.68 | -1.04 |
| Born 1962-1971 (age 25-34 years) | 2.63*** | 3.28 | 0.52* | -2.21 |
| Born 1952-1961 (age 35-44 years) | 1.83* | 2.25 | 0.78 | -0.92 |
| Born 1942-1951 (age 45-55 years) | 1.09 | 0.37 | 0.79 | -0.97 |
| Ethnicity:3 | ||||
| Low-caste Hindu | 0.63* | -2.27 | 0.59** | -2.51 |
| Newar | 1.01 | 0.04 | 0.98 | -0.09 |
| Hill Tibeto-Burmese | 0.77 | -1.50 | 1.13 | 0.76 |
| Terai Tibeto-Burmese | 0.86 | -0.81 | 1.67** | 3.04 |
| Wife of different ethnicity | 0.88 | -0.38 | 0.89 | -0.37 |
| Has more than one wife | 2.46* | 2.09 | 3.09** | 3.08 |
| Lived in neighbourhood in year before married | 0.62*** | -3.84 | 1.04 | 0.34 |
| ICC (Intra class correlation) | 0.17 | 0.04 | ||
| Deviance | 1706 | 1841 | ||
Notes: Sample size 1,487. OR: odds ratio.
1
Before marriage.
2
Reference group, born 1941 or earlier (aged 55 or more years).
3
Reference group, High-caste Hindu.
***
Significance level: p < 0.001, one-tailed tests
**
Significance level: p < 0.01, one-tailed tests
*
Significance level: p < 0.05, one-tailed tests