Table 1.
Background characteristics and indicators of possible contamination for women interviewed in adjacent non-DSS and DSS villages and the women interviewed in all DSS villages, MDHS, 1994
| Group of variables and indicator | Place of residence | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-DSS villages | DSS villages | ||
| DSS villages adjacent to Non-DSS villages | All DSS villages | ||
| Number of women | 225 | 292 | 2703 |
| Background characteristics | |||
| Percent with no schooling | 56.4 | 51.7 | 54.7 |
| Percent currently married | 96.0 | 94.2 | 94.5 |
| Percent with age <30 years | 55.5 | 41.5* | 48.4 |
| Mean age | 30.1 | 32.7* | 31.2 |
| Mean years of schooling | 2.10 | 2.41 | 2.23 |
| Mean parity | 4.31 | 4.24 | 3.92 |
| Indicators of possible contamination | |||
| Maternal age heaping (percent of reported ages ending in 0 or 5) | 16.9 | 20.5 | 19.6 |
| Percent of women who reported complete dates for all births | 90.7 | 97.9* | 98.3 |
| Heaping of birth intervals (percent of all intervals 12–48 months reported in multiples of 12) | 14 (n = 616) | 14 (n = 764) | 15 (n = 6498) |
*p < 0.05 for the test of equality of means (percentages) in non-DSS and adjacent DSS villages