Table 1.

Comparison of age of children and baseline data of mothers in the intervention and control groups^a

	Intervention		Control		P
	n 47		n 46
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Parity
1–3	26	55 · 3	26	56 · 5
4–6	14	29 · 8	12	26 · 0	0 · 09
>6	7	14 · 9	8	17 · 4
Education
None	29	61 · 7	31	67 · 4
Primary	7	14 · 9	5	10 · 9	0 · 80
Middle	8	17 · 0	7	15 · 2
Secondary	3	6.4	2	4 · 3
Unknown	0		1	2 · 1
Marital status
Married	32	68 · 1	29	63 · 0
Living together	12	25 · 5	12	26 · 0	0 · 71
Widowed	0	0	1	2 · 2
Divorced	0	0	1	2 · 2
Single unmarried	3	6 · 4	3	6 · 5
Occupation
Farmer	38 · 0	80 · 8	34 · 0	73 · 9
Trader	5 · 0	10 · 6	5 · 0	10 · 9	0 · 59
Professional	4 · 0	8 · 5	7 · 0	15 · 2
Age, months	Mean	Range	Mean	Range
Baseline	8 · 2	7 · 9–8 · 1	8 · 4	8 · 1–8 · 7	0 · 30
Endline	14 · 1	13 · 7–14 · 1	14 · 4	14 · 0–14 · 7	0 · 23

^aNo significant difference was noted among treatment groups for all characteristics shown