Table 1.
Women’s socio-demographic characteristics in DSM and Mbeya.
| DSM |
Mbeya |
|
|---|---|---|
| N = 474 | N = 586 | |
| Age | 30.95 (8.21) | 30.89 (7.85) |
| Partnership status | ||
| Married | 50.4 | 52.4 |
| Cohabiting | 24.5 | 31.6 |
| Dating | 15.4 | 3.6 |
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 9.7 | 12.5 |
| Religion | ||
| None | 0.0 | 14.0 |
| Islam | 57.4 | 2.4 |
| Christian | 41.8 | 76.1 |
| Other | 0.8 | 7.5 |
| Education | ||
| None | 11.0 | 29.2 |
| Incomplete primary | 12.2 | 13.8 |
| Complete primary | 58.4 | 50.9 |
| Some secondary + | 18.4 | 6.1 |
| Earns money | 53.2 | 66.8 |
| Land | ||
| Owns with others | 26.8 | 50.2 |
| Owns by self | 15.4 | 26.5 |
| House | ||
| Owns with others | 27.2 | 61.8 |
| Owns by self | 10.8 | 10.6 |
| Business | ||
| Owns with others | 4.0 | 6.0 |
| Owns by self | 14.8 | 10.1 |
| Raise money in an emergency | ||
| Yes | 41.7 | 53.2 |
| (Dating/not partnered) | 25.2 | 16.1 |
| Household S.E.S | ||
| Low | 67.9 | 91.1 |
| Middle | 21.7 | 7.2 |
| High | 10.3 | 1.7 |
| Parity | ||
| 0 | 12.0 | 5.3 |
| 1–2 | 43.3 | 30.4 |
| 3–4 | 27.2 | 33.3 |
| 5 + | 17.5 | 31.1 |
| Attitudes to wife beating | 71.2 | 75.7 |
| Violence in childhood | 47.2 | 59.5 |
Note: All figures are given in percentages except those for Age which are given as: mean (S.D).