Table 2. Respondents’ socioeconomic characteristics before and after the intervention.

	Intervention			Control
	2008	2012	P-value	2008	2012	P-value
Mother of under-1 live Child	1995	974		984	485
Mother whose under-1 Child died in the past year	97	49		42	19
Mother who had termination or MR or stillbirth or IUD in past year	308	177		174	96
Mother of children aged 12–59 months	2400	1200		1200	600
Total respondents	4800	2400		2400	1200
Respondent’s age (years) (%)
≤19	14.7	18.5	0.000	14.8	16.2	0.54
20–34	76.7	75.2		76.8	75.8
≥35	8.6	6.4		8.4	8.0
Mean maternal age	25.39	24.78		25.23	25.09
Respondent’s literacy (%)
Yes	50.0	58.5	0.000	52.4	61.9	0.000
No	50.0	41.5		47.6	38.1
Respondent’s education (%)
No education	34.6	19.2	0.000	33.9	23.0	0.000
Primary education (1–5)	29.1	34.7		32.0	33.9
Secondary education (6–10)	29.4	36.9		28.5	35.2
Higher secondary	6.9	9.2		5.6	7.9
Respondent’s involved in income earning (%)
Yes	15.4	6.9	0.000	11.5	12.8	0.000
No	84.6	93.1		88.5	87.2
Husband’s literacy (%)
Yes	44.2	50.9	0.000	45.3	51.8	0.000
No	55.8	49.1		54.7	48.2
Husband’s education (%)
No education	46.4	33.3	0.000	45.8	36.2	0.000
Primary education (1–5)	24.0	31.2		24.2	29.4
Secondary education (6–10)	16.8	19.5		18.3	21.8
Higher secondary	12.1	14.7		11.1	11.9
Amount of land (%)
None	4.8	24.2	0.000	3.2	14.9	0.000
< = 50 dcm	64.8	51.2		56.2	54.1
>50 dcm	30.4	24.6		40.6	31.0
Wealth index (%)
Lowest	19.2	15.7	0.000	24.7	22.5	0.000
Second	20.2	22.7		16.3	21.0
Middle	18.9	23.9		17.2	21.9
Fourth	19.8	20.2		21.2	18.6
Highest	21.9	17.6		20.6	16.0