Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics for women respondents
| Variables | Baseline |
Endline |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison |
Intervention |
p-Value | Comparison |
Intervention |
p-Value | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Total women | 1,101 (100) | 1,136 (100) | 920 (100) | 1,026 (100) | ||
| Age groups(years) | ||||||
| 14–19 | 168 (15.3) | 163 (14.4) | 138 (15.0) | 149 (14.5) | ||
| 20–24 | 300 (27.3) | 327 (28.8) | 0.614 | 305 (33.2) | 346 (33.7) | 0.567 |
| 25–29 | 271 (24.6) | 271 (23.9) | 205 (22.3) | 219 (21.4) | ||
| 30–34 | 202 (18.4) | 191 (16.8) | 153 (16.6) | 155 (15.1) | ||
| 35+ | 160 (14.5) | 184 (16.2) | 119 (12.9) | 157 (15.3) | ||
| Mean age (SD)a | 26.5 (6.6) | 26.7 (7.1) | 0.266 | 26.1 (6.6) | 26.3 (6.5) | 0.769 |
| Education levels | ||||||
| None | 715 (65.0) | 819 (72.1) | 574 (62.4) | 638 (62.2) | ||
| Primary | 290 (26.4) | 234 (20.6) | 0.001*** | 269 (29.2) | 293 (28.6) | 0.773 |
| Post primary | 95 (8.6) | 83 (7.3) | 77 (8.4) | 95 (9.3) | ||
| Parity | ||||||
| ≤3 | 275 (25.0) | 264 (23.2) | 0.325 | 421 (45.8) | 487 (47.5) | 0.452 |
| 4+ | 825 (75.0) | 873 (76.8) | 499 (54.2) | 539 (52.5) | ||
| Occupation | ||||||
| Salaried worker | 28 (2.6) | 29 (2.6) | 0.408 | 17 (1.9) | 27 (2.6) | 0.001*** |
| Business | 51 (4.6) | 40 (3.5) | 63 (6.9) | 35 (3.4) | ||
| Peasant | 1021 (92.8) | 1068 (93.9) | 840 (91.3) | 963 (94.0) | ||
| Religion | ||||||
| Catholic | 283 (25.7) | 265 (23.3) | 404 (43.9) | 438 (42.7) | ||
| Protestant | 493 (44.8) | 495 (43.5) | 208 (22.6) | 224 (21.8) | ||
| Muslims | 192 (17.5) | 150 (13.2) | 0.001*** | 170 (18.5) | 161 (15.7) | 0.001*** |
| Pentecostal/Born | 120 (10.9) | 208 (18.3) | 110 (12.0) | 189 (18.4) | ||
| Others | 12 (1.1) | 19 (1.7) | 28 (3.0) | 14 (1.4) | ||
***p < 0.01; **p < 0.05.
aA two-sample t-test was used to measure if the mean differences were not equal to zero.
SD, standard deviation.