Table 2.

Socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics of study population (%)

Characteristics	Referred from DC N = 225	Referred from home N = 225	Total N = 450	p value
Age (years) (%)
Below 20	30.2	13.3	21.8
20 - 35	65.8	82.7	74.2
35 or more	4.0	4.0	4.0
Mean age (±SD)	23.0 (5.5)	25.2 (5.8)		<0.001
Religion (%)
Islam	98.2	98.2	98.2
Others	1.8	1.7	1.8
Marital status (%)
Married	99.1	97.3	98.2
Separated	0.9	2.7	1.8
Educational status (%)
No schooling	27.2	28.4	27.8
Primary	39.6	39.4	39.5
Secondary	28.4	24.4	26.5
Secondary and above	4.8	7.8	6.3
Mean year of schooling (±SD)	4.2 (3.3)	4.1 (3.6)		0.795
Involved in income generation (%)	8.4	16.4	12.4	0.015
Parity (%)
None	0.0	0.4	1.2
1	53.8	44.0	48.9
2-3	30.2	34.7	32.4
4-5	9.3	15.6	12.4
6 or more	6.7	5.3	6.0
Mean number of children ever born (±SD)	2.1 (1.7)	2.3 (1.7)		0.231
Birth spacing (interval between index and last child (Yrs) (%)
Less than 2 years	9.3	4.9	7.1
3-5	17.8	16.4	17.1
5 years or more	72.9	78.7	75.8
Mean years of birth interval (± SD) (Excluding primigravida)	4.6 (2.7)	6.4 (3.6)		< 0.001
History of child death (%)
No death	73.8	75.8	74.2
Stillbirth	12.0	13.0	12.7
Infant death	11.0	10.0	10.6
≥ 2 years	3.2	1.2	2.5