Table 6.

Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents

Characteristics	Baseline	Endline	P-value (Baseline vs Endline)	Endline
	All participants 5566 (%)	All participants (N = 2892) (%)		Suraj Intervention (N = 1105) (%)	CMW Intervention (N = 712) (%)	Control Arm (N = 1075) (%)
Age of MWRA
15–19 years	3.0	1.6	<0.0001	2.1	1.1	1.5
20–24 years	19.0	18.9	0.9114	17.5	18.4	20.7
25–29 years	33.0	33.8	0.4589	34.8	27.1	37.2
30–34 years	27.0	25.3	0.0926	26.4	30.3	20.9
35–39 years	14.0	15.5	0.0632	16.1	16.0	14.6
40–44 years	3.0	4.2	0.0039	2.6	6.3	4.5
45–49 years	1.0	0.6	0.0593	0.5	0.7	0.7
Mean age ± SD (median) years	28.0 ± 5.5 (28)	29.1 ± 5.6 (30)	<0.0001	28.8 ± 5.3 (28)	29.9 ± 5.9 (30)	28.8 ± 5.6 (28)
Age at time of marriage (mean ± SD)	20 ± 3.4	19.8 ± 3.3	0.009	20.3 ± 3.2	19.5 ± 3.5	19.6 ± 3.4
Ethnicity
Urdu	7.0	5.5	0.0079	8.9	2.7	3.9
Sindhi	15.0	17.8	0.0009	23.6	0.3	23.4
Punjabi	29.0	26.5	0.0153	34.5	25.0	19.2
Hindco	22.0	19.1	0.0019	22.4	0.6	27.8
Saraiki	24.0	29.0	<0.0001	7.3	71.3	23.3
Others (Pashto, Kashmiri, Balochi)	2.9	2.2	0.0578	3.3	0.1	2.3
Education status of the MWRA
Illiterate	55.9	48.0	<0.0001	40.4	66.4	43.5
Can read or write only/less than 1 class	1.6	3.8	<0.0001	3.1	5.3	3.4
Primary (1 to 5)	15.5	16.0	0.5485	17.9	10.7	17.7
Middle (6 to 8)	7.7	9.4	0.0071	11.2	6.2	9.7
Matriculation and Higher	19.3	22.8	0.0002	27.4	11.5	25.7
Employment status of the MWRA
Housewife	93.1	90.4	<0.0001	95.6	83.3	89.8
Working	6.9	9.6	<0.0001	4.4	16.7	10.2
Employment status of Husbands
Unemployed	4.6	2.9	0.0002	3.8	1.4	2.9
Skilled Employment	60.3	52.5	<0.0001	63.2	37.6	52.1
Unskilled Employment	27.9	30.1	0.0338	22.8	43.6	28.6
Agriculture/farming	7.0	14.6	<0.0001	10.2	18.8	16.4