Table 1.
The profile of the selected participants.
| Background characteristics |
Young women |
Adult women |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | ||
| EDUCATION | |||
| Illiterate | 0 (0.0) | 6 (6.3) | Chi square = 49.42, p < 0.001, significant |
| Primary (up to 4 standard) | 1 (1.0) | 7 (7.3) | |
| Secondary (up to 10 standard) | 45 (46.9) | 74 (77.1) | |
| College (up to graduation) | 37 (38.5) | 5 (5.2) | |
| Graduate | 12 (12.5) | 2 (2.1) | |
| Post graduate | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Not available | 1 (1.0) | 2 (2.1) | |
| OCCUPATION | |||
| Service | 11 (11.5) | 3 (3.1) | Chi square = 160.06, p < 0.001, significant |
| Business | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.1) | |
| Student | 71 (74.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| At home (house wife) | 6 (6.3) | 91 (94.8) | |
| Unemployed | 7 (7.3) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Not available | 1 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| RELIGION | |||
| Hindu | 88 (91.2) | 87 (90.6) | Chi square = 1.10, p = 0.778, not significant |
| Buddhist | 6 (6.3) | 5 (5.2) | |
| Muslim | 1 (1.0) | 3 (3.1) | |
| Christian | 1 (1.0) | 1 (1.0) | |
| Total | 96 (100) | 96 (100) | |