Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for variables used in models predicting women’s empowerment and children’s health.^*

Variable	4,884 Women Empowerment Sample %	3,770 Women with Children Health Sample %
Empowerment scale	mn: 1.18 sd: 1.44	mn: 1.01 sd: 1.41
Final say alone	24	20
Child severely underweight	n/a	14
Urban residence	4	2
Hindu	86	83
Caste/ethnicity
High caste	32	30
Tibeto-Burman	24	25
Other	44	46
Household wealth
Highest	11	7
Intermediate high	20	18
Middle	20	19
Intermediate low	23	26
Lowest	26	30
Wife of household head	77	75
Age	mn: 32.2 sd: 9.0	mn: 28.7 sd: 6.5
Employment remuneration
Unpaid	77	78
Paid in kind only	16	15
Paid in cash	8	7
Education
None	80	81
Primary	13	13
Some secondary or more	7	6
Husband’s education
None or unknown	43	43
Primary	27	28
Some secondary	21	21
Completed secondary	9	9
Land rights
Lives in landed household	71	74
Owns land herself	9	6
Lives in landless household	20	20
Owns livestock	29	27

^*Percents are rounded to the nearest whole number and, thus, do not necessarily add to 100.

Source: Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2001