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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Dev Stud. 2015 Sep 14;51(10):1374–1388. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1066497

Table 3.

Age-adjusted prevalence (%) of women according to selected characteristics.

Country Overall
(n=17009)
Married
(n=10792)
Widowed
(n=5313)
p-value
Household
wealth
China Poorest Q 16.4 13.4 31.6 <.0001
Wealthiest Q 21.9 23.0 15.8 <.0001
Ghana Poorest Q 20.0 15.4 24.1 <.0001
Wealthiest Q 18.0 20.5 12.4 <.0001
India Poorest Q 19.4 17.7 23.7 <.0001
Wealthiest Q 23.4 25.3 17.3 <.0001
Russian Federation Poorest Q 16.4 8.9 23.9 <.0001
Wealthiest Q 21.8 26.1 13.9 <.0001
South Africa Poorest Q 21.1 13.9 21.3 .0001
Wealthiest Q 17.6 26.9 12.6 <.0001
Education
China none 32.7 30.3 41.7 <.0001
Ghana none 62.9 62.7 69.7 .0039
India none 73.0 71.0 80.1 <.0001
Russian Federation none 0.7 1.0 0.6 ns
South Africa none 27.5 21.9 32.6 <.0001
Household size
China 1 11.7 2.8 43.8 <.0001
2 48.2 58.2 16.5 <.0001
3+ 40.2 39.0 39.7 ns
Ghana 1 7.9 2.3 10.8 <.0001
2 12.6 9.7 13.4 .0110
3+ 79.6 88.1 75.8 <.0001
India 1 3.0 0.1 7.5 <.0001
2 9.2 13.0 6.4 <.0001
3+ 87.8 86.9 86.1 ns
Russian
Federation
1 29.1 1.2 54.3 <.0001
2 42.4 66.5 23.3 <.0001
3+ 28.5 32.3 22.4 <.0001
South Africa 1 14.5 7.7 14.6 <.0001
2 18.9 27.2 14.8 <.0001
3+ 66.6 65.1 70.6 .0206
Food scarce
China Scarce 0.8 0.6 1.1 ns
Ghana Scarce 44.1 42.0 49.4 .0036
India Scarce 17.6 15.3 22.8 <.0001
Russian
Federation
Scarce 14.5 16.0 11.3 .0022
South
Africa
Scarce 34.3 27.1 34.4 .0023
BMI
China underweight 4.2 4.0 5.2 ns
Ghana underweight 14.4 14.0 14.0 ns
India underweight 38.8 36.3 42.9 .0004
Russian Federation underweight 1.0 1.0 1.0 ns
South Africa underweight 2.6 1.9 1.8 ns
in pension households
China yes 43.8 44.5 42.6 ns
Ghana yes 5.8 9.8 2.1 <.0001
India yes 15.8 16.9 15.9 ns
Russian Federation yes 86.4 89.4 87.9 ns
South Africa yes 59.0 57.3 63.1 .0203
worked in the last 7 days
China yes 34.8 36.1 30.9 .0006
Ghana yes 68.2 70.4 66.4 ns
India yes 19.9 21.1 21.7 ns
Russian Federation yes 41.1 39.8 36.9 ns
South Africa yes 22.2 23.2 19.7 ns
Self-reported
wellbeing
China unhappy/very
unhappy
6.2 5.9 9.4 .0001
Ghana unhappy/very
unhappy
13.7 11.2 16.7 .0019
India unhappy/very
unhappy
11.0 7.6 16.3 <.0001
Russian Federation unhappy/very
unhappy
11.2 12.5 8.3 .0024
South Africa unhappy/very
unhappy
18.4 14.7 17.9 ns
Conflict
China Moderate/severe 2.7 2.3 4.2 .0023
Ghana Moderate/severe 21.7 22.7 22.1 ns
India Moderate/severe 34.5 29.3 42.1 <.0001
Russian Federation Moderate/severe 11.0 9.5 10.4 ns
South Africa Moderate/severe 20.6 17.7 26.7 <.0001
Health
China bad/very bad 23.8 23.0 31.8 <.0001
Ghana bad/very bad 18.3 18.4 18.2 ns
India bad/very bad 26.3 23.7 28.8 .0018
Russian
Federation
bad/very bad 22.4 21.4 25.2 .0455
South
Africa
bad/very bad 17.8 13.7 19.4 .0027
Depression
China moderate/severe 4.9 4.4 10.6 <.0001
Ghana moderate/severe 23.6 21.0 25.9 .0221
India moderate/severe 31.8 26.4 39.4 <.0001
Russian Federation moderate/severe 17.0 14.0 18.7 .0050
South Africa moderate/severe 27.5 25.0 29.3 .0601
Feel lonely
yesterday
China
Yes 6.3 3.8 18.6 <0.001
Ghana
Yes 12.9 13.4 12.4 Ns
India
Yes 20.5 18.0 23.5 0.003
Russian
Federation
Yes 11.6 4.8 16.1 <0.001
South Africa 10.3 8.1 10.8 0.761