TABLE 1.

Descriptive statistics (means) for individual and couples at enrollment, by sex, Balaka, Malawi, 2009–11

	Men	Women
Characteristic	Mean (range)	Mean (range)
Age	25.5 (15 – 56)	20.6*** (15 – 25)
Years of education	6.4 (0 – 14)	7.1*** (0 – 12)
Number of living children	1.2 (0 – 9)	1.1 (0 – 4)
Household goods index	2.6 (0 – 8)	2.3** (0 – 7)
Religion (percent)
Catholic	29.9	31.9
Muslim	22.2	21.1
Mission Protestant	12.9	14.0
Pentecostal	17.4	13.7
New Mission Protestant	13.1	12.7
Other (mostly AIC)	5.2	6.6

	Couple
	Mean (range)
Age difference (male–female)	4.9 (5 – 32)
Years of education difference (male–female)	−0.8 (−12 – 11)
Average waves both interviewed	5.5 (2 – 8)
Relationship length (months) (percent)
0–12	29.8
13–24	14.2
25–48	19.5
49–72	15.4
73+	21.0
Married (percent)	72.7
Same religion (percent)	64.5
N (couples)	(758)
N (couple-waves)	(4,173)

^**T-test significant at p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.001.

AIC = African Independent Churches.