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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2013 Aug 8;67(11):953–959. doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-202647

Table 2.

Description of sexual division of power among non-pregnant women in Liberia who are currently married or living with a partner

Overall
(N=3894)
Used
healthcare
facility in last
12 months
(65.6%) (%)
Did not use
healthcare
facility in
last 12 months
(34.4%) (%)
p Value
Respondent participates in decisions about …§
  Making large household purchases 75.2 77.7 69.8 <0.001
  Making household purchases for daily needs 90.9 91.9 88.8 0.035
  Visits to family or relatives 79.3 82.1 75.4 <0.001
  What to do with money husband earns 68.4 68.9 66.7 0.429
  Whether to borrow money and how much 58.7 59.0 57.4 0.613
Wife beating justified if…
  She goes out without telling him 45.3 44.6 46.6 0.469
  She neglects the children 48.8 48.3 49.7 0.529
  She argues with him 48.4 47.1 50.9 0.135
  She refuses to have sex with him 25.5 23.5 29.1 0.003
  She burns the food 14.2 14.4 13.8 0.698
  History of abuse
  Physical abuse†† 16.1 17.2 14.0 0.059
  Sexual abuse‡‡ 9.9 8.4 12.7 0.011

Values presented are weighted percents.

p Values derived from Rao-Scott weighted χ2 tests.

§

Missing values range from 24 to 135.

Missing values range from 42 to 71.

††

879 Responses are missing.

‡‡

878 Responses are missing.