Table 2.

Characteristics of the samples, categorical and continuous variables

Variables	DRC		Ghana		Kenya		Mozambique		Nigeria
	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD
Women’s education (in years)	5.2	3.8	6.0	4.9	7.6	4.0	3.1	3.3	4.7	5.7
Women’s age (in years)	29.2	6.8	30.6	6.8	28.6	6.4	28.6	7.3	29.4	7.0
Household wealth index
Poorest	22.4		22.7		23.4		23.6		23.5
Poorer	23.0		19.8		20.3		21.4		23.1
Middle	20.6		20.6		18.5		20.0		18.9
Rich	18.6		18.7		18.2		19.9		17.8
Richest	15.5		18.2		19.6		15.1		16.8
Respondent currently working (yes)	74.9		78.8		63.6		39.3		68.9
Place of residence (urban)	29.9		45.4		36.1		27.5		35.0
Household head (female)	21.6		26.0		30.4		30.3		9.7
Parity	4.4	2.6	3.6	2.1	3.5	2.3	3.9	2.3	4.3	2.6
Household size	6.8	2.9	5.6	2.6	5.6	2.4	6.0	2.6	7.0	3.6
Frequency of watching TV
Not at all	66.4		19.6		22.0		34.5		39.8
Less than once a week	14.6		32.7		12.5		23.2		25.0
At least once a week	19.0		47.7		65.5		42.3		35.2
Currently breastfeeding (yes)	68.6		57.8		54.0		60.8		54.8
Marital status
Never married	4.3		7.1		7.1		4.2		1.6
Married or cohabiting	87.2		86.5		83.7		84.3		95.9
Formerly in union	8.5		6.4		9.2		11.5		2.6
Decision on large household purchases
Respondent alone	8.7		20.8		29.1		17.2		4.7
Both respondent and partner	31.0		42.7		34.2		39.1		29.2
Partner alone	47.3		22.2		20.1		27.5		61.6
Someone else/other	0.2		0.9		0.4		0.6		0.2
Decision on respondent’s health
Respondent alone	13.8		16.3		14.7		10.0		4.3
Both Respondent and partner	37.2		44.8		42.2		38.2		28.4
Partner alone	35.6		24.4		26.3		35.4		62.8
Someone else/other	0.3		1.0		0.4		0.7		0.2

DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo.