Table 1.

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of included households

Characteristics	Gujarat (95% confidence interval)			Uttar Pradesh (95% confidence interval)
	Baseline	Endline	Endline–Baseline P value	Baseline	Endline	Endline–Baseline P value
	March–May 2011 (n = 4200)	October–December 2013 (n = 5080)		March–June 2011 (n = 3889)	August–October 2014 (n = 7853)
Number of nuclear families	37% (35 to 40%)	32% (30 to 34%)	<0.001	55% (52 to 58%)	52% (50 to 54%)	0.16
No. mothers with ≥1 year of schooling	51% (47 to 56%)	59% (56 to 62%)	0.01	38% (34 to 42%)	51% (48 to 53%)	<0.001
No. children <5 living in this house	1.46 (1.43 to 1.49)	1.40 (1.37 to 1.43)	0.00	1.44 (1.41 to 1.47)	1.41 (1.39 to 1.43)	0.05
Mean number boys	0.76 (0.74 to 0.79)	0.74 (0.72 to 0.77)	0.31	0.74 (73 to 77%)	0.73 (72 to 75%)	0.30
Mean number girls	0.70 (0.68 to 0.73)	0.66 (0.63 to .68)	0.01	0.69 (67 to 72%)	0.68 (66 to 69%)	0.30
Age of the index child (mean in months)	24.3 (23.7 to 24.9)	24.0 (23.4 to 24.5)	0.43	24.7 (24.1 to 25.4)	25.3 (24.9 to 25.6)	0.13
Sex of index child: female	46% (44 to 47%)	44% (42 to 45%)	0.10	47% (46 to 49%)	46% (45 to 47%)	0.25
Proportion of children breastfed in the previous 24 h	58% (56 to 60%)	60% (58 to 62%)	0.21	67% (65 to 69%)	64% (63 to 65%)	<0.001
Below poverty line	40% (37 to 44%)	48% (45 to 51%)	0.00	28% (25 to 31%)	22% (21 to 24%)	<0.001
Religion:			0.17			0.54
-Hindu	95% (92 to 98%)	96% (94 to 97%)		88% (83 to 92%)	86% (84 to 88%)
-Muslim	4% (2 to 9%)	4% (2 to 6%)		12% (8 to 17%)	14% (12 to 16%)
-Other	0% (0 to 1%)	0% (0 to 1%)		0% (0 to 0%)	0% (0 to 0%)
Ethnic group:			0.14			0.86
-Scheduled caste	12% (9 to 16%)	17% (14 to 20%)		35% (31 to 40%)	37% (34 to 40%)
-Scheduled tribe	31% (24 to 38%)	25% (21 to 31%)		0% (0 to 1%)	0% (0 to 0%)
-Other backward caste	41% (35 to 48%)	44% (40 to 49%)		48% (43 to 53%)	47% (44 to 50%)
-Other	16% (12 to 21%)	13% (11 to 16%)		17% (13 to 21%)	16% (14 to 18%