Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of men at long-term follow-up (n = 399)
| Exposed (n = 232) % (n) |
Unexposed (n = 169) % (n) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (mean years) | 24 | 24 | 0.526 |
| Education | |||
| Lower primary | 29 (68) | 22 (36) | 0.093 |
| Upper primary and higher | 71 (165) | 78 (130) | |
| Employment | |||
| Farming | 92 (214) | 88 (146) | 0.316 |
| Self-employed | 3 (8) | 5 (8) | |
| Work for employer | 4 (10) | 6 (10) | |
| Work for family | 1 (1) | 1 (2) | |
| Payment of bride price | |||
| No consent/knowledge of family | 29 (68) | 22 (36) | 0.093 |
| Partially or completely paid | 71 (165) | 78 (130) | |
| Childhood experiences | |||
| Witnessed violence at home as a child (often or sometimes) | 73 (168) | 76 (126) | 0.476 |
| Threatened with physical punishment as a child (often or sometimes) | 73 (168) | 76 (126) | 0.435 |
| Experienced physical violence as a child (often or sometimes) | 83 (193) | 90 (149) | 0.051 |
| Parented by father | 64 (149) | 58 (97) | 0.264 |
| Use of a family planning method | 27 (64) | 28 (46) | 0.957 |
| Wife’s age (mean years) | 21 | 21 | 0.451 |
| Wife’s education | |||
| Lower primary | 15 (33) | 18 (29) | 0.429 |
| Upper primary and higher | 85 (183) | 82 (129) | |
| Child’s age (mean years) | 3 | 3 | 0.892 |
| Child’s sex (girl child) | 45 (106) | 51 (85) | 0.260 |
| Biological father of child | 99 (231) | 100 (166) | 0.231 |
| Who makes decisions about money at home | |||
| Me | 8 (19) | 13 (21) | 0.190 |
| My wife | 3 (6) | 4 (7) | |
| Both of us | 89 (208) | 82 (136) | |