Table 1.

First Look study: maternal characteristics by treatment group

	Intervention	Control
Women, N	24 008	22 896
Maternal age (years), N (%)
<20	4306 (17.9)	4188 (18.3)
20–35	17 921 (74.7)	16 977 (74.2)
>35	1764 (7.4)	1723 (7.5)
Maternal education level, N(%)
No formal schooling/illiterate	5010 (20.9)	4836 (21.1)
No formal schooling/literate	389 (1.6)	294 (1.3)
Primary	7059 (29.4)	7235 (31.6)
Secondary	10 559 (44.0)	9486 (41.4)
University	979 (4.1)	1040 (4.5)
Parity, N (%)
0	5966 (25.3)	5988 (26.6)
1	5366 (22.8)	4960 (22.1)
2+	12 215 (51.9)	11 532 (51.3)