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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2012 Sep 11;42(1):59–70. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.09.002

Table 1.

Means and standard deviations of independent variables (n=329).

Variable Mean SD
Gender
 Male 0.36
 Female 0.64
Years of education 5.3 4.3
Who chose spouse
 Family 0.40
 Both family and respondent 0.32
 Respondent 0.28
Age at marriage 18.9 3.7
Marital duration 10.5 7.6
Number of children 2.4 1.6
Caste/ethnicity
 Chetri or Bahun 0.39
 Indigenous hill group 0.18
 Dalit 0.13
 Indigenous Terai group 0.30
Occupational status
 Does not work for pay 0.67
 Daily wage 0.14
 Salaried position 0.19