Table 3.
Characteristics of lifelong rural and urban resident sample of mothers
| Mothers’ characteristics | Rural % (N=248) |
Urban % (N=284) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | <35 years | 64 | 81 | <0.0001 |
| >=35 years | 36 | 19 | ||
| Marital status | Unmarried | 13 | 20 | <0.05 |
| Married | 87 | 80 | ||
| Religion | None/traditional | 70 | 32 | <0.0001 |
| Christian/Muslim | 30 | 68 | ||
| Formal education | None | 74 | 44 | <0.0001 |
| >= standard 1 | 26 | 56 | ||
| Earns any cash | None | 44 | 40 | =0.455 |
| Yes | 56 | 60 | ||
| Children < 10 | Means (SD) | 1.2 | 1.0 | <0.0001 |
| MGR* membership | Yes | 12 | 23 | <0.01 |
| No | 88 | 77 | ||
| WG** membership | Yes | 14 | 5 | <0.001 |
| No | 86 | 95 | ||
| HH type | Nuclear | 20 | 67 | <0.0001 |
| Extended | 80 | 32 | ||
| Husband’s residence | Household | 68 | 93 | <0.0001 |
| Elsewhere | 32 | 7 |
*
MGR = merry-go-round
**
WG = women’s group; (see reference 17)