Table 3.

Distribution of consanguineous unions, total marriages, and IC-F in various socio-demographic variables of subjects

Variable	Consanguineous unions		Total marriages		Bivariate logistic regression OR	IC-F
	No.	%	No.	%
Education*
Illiterate	564	65.6	860	39.6	2.33*	0.0396
Religious education/Madarsa	399	63.4	629	28.9	2.12*	0.0383
Literate (all)	308	45.0	685	31.5	1.00	0.0278
Literacy level (years of schooling)
Up to 8 years	146	47.4	308	14.2	0.67	0.0301
9–12 years	128	44.6	287	13.2	0.89	0.0265
>12 years	34	37.8	90	4.1	1.00	0.0236
Subjects’ age group (years)
Up to 25	342	54.7	625	28.8	1.00	0.0328
26–50	781	59.4	1315	60.5	0.75*	0.0363
>50	148	63.3	234	10.8	0.83	0.0379
Marriage arrangement (n = 2117)*
Arranged marriage	736	50.2	1466	69.2	1.00	0.0306
Self-arranged	27	79.4	34	1.6	3.83*	0.0455
Reciprocal (Watta-Satta)	470	76.2	617	29.2	3.17*	0.0466
Family/household type (n = 2108)
Nuclear	695	60.2	1154	54.7	1.12	0.0367
Grandparent-and-one-couple	292	57.5	508	24.1	1.00	0.0347
Extended family	244	54.7	446	21.2	0.89	0.0337
Occupation of husband*
Unskilled manual	423	67.1	632	29.1	1.94*	0.0406
Agriculture/farming	288	59.9	481	22.1	1.45*	0.0362
Office job/services	239	51.7	462	21.3	1.04	0.0313
Business/sales	217	50.7	428	19.7	1.00	0.0315
Skilled manual	68	63.0	108	5.0	1.79*	0.0378
Unemployed	12	70.6	17	0.8	–	0.0368
Late/deceased	24	52.2	46	2.1	–	0.0313
Parental marriage type (n = 1998)*
Consanguineous	725	74.7	970	48.5	4.05*	0.0453
Non-consanguineous	434	42.2	1028	51.5	1.00	0.0256

*Distribution was statistically significant