Table 2. Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of currently married Nepali women aged 15–49 who had a live birth in the past five years.
| Variable | Participants | P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (n = 3,970) |
Child marriage (n = 2,138) | Adult marriage (n = 1,832) | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Age of women at interview | P<0.001 | |||||||
| 15–19 | 341 | 8.3 | 320 | 14.7 | 21 | 1.1 | ||
| 20–24 | 1,301 | 31.8 | 756 | 35.3 | 545 | 27.9 | ||
| 25–29 | 1,337 | 34.6 | 612 | 29.1 | 725 | 40.9 | ||
| 30–34 | 644 | 16.3 | 299 | 13.7 | 345 | 19.1 | ||
| ≥35 | 347 | 9.0 | 151 | 7.2 | 196 | 10.9 | ||
| Age of husbands at interview | P<0.001 | |||||||
| 15–19 | 49 | 1.1 | 31 | 1.4 | 18 | 0.8 | ||
| 20–24 | 676 | 15.5 | 438 | 18.9 | 238 | 11.6 | ||
| 25–29 | 1,210 | 30.3 | 643 | 31.0 | 567 | 29.4 | ||
| 30–34 | 1,092 | 28.3 | 547 | 26.0 | 545 | 30.9 | ||
| ≥35 | 943 | 24.9 | 479 | 22.8 | 464 | 27.3 | ||
| Religion | P = 0.857 | |||||||
| Hindu | 3,458 | 85.7 | 1,851 | 85.5 | 1,607 | 85.8 | ||
| Others | 512 | 14.3 | 287 | 14.5 | 225 | 14.2 | ||
| Ethnic group | P = 0.052 | |||||||
| Advantaged | 2,001 | 50.9 | 1,034 | 48.7 | 967 | 53.3 | ||
| Disadvantaged | 1,969 | 49.2 | 1,104 | 51.3 | 865 | 46.7 | ||
| Ecological zone | P<0.001 | |||||||
| Mountain | 323 | 6.7 | 177 | 6.7 | 146 | 6.7 | ||
| Hill | 1,724 | 40.2 | 859 | 33.3 | 865 | 48.0 | ||
| Lowland | 1,923 | 53.1 | 1,102 | 60.0 | 821 | 45.3 | ||
| Economic status | P<0.001 | |||||||
| Poor | 1,323 | 27.9 | 780 | 30.9 | 543 | 24.5 | ||
| Middle | 1,324 | 34.5 | 775 | 39.1 | 549 | 29.3 | ||
| Rich | 1,323 | 37.6 | 583 | 30.0 | 740 | 46.3 | ||
| Highest level of women's education | P<0.001 | |||||||
| No education | 1,218 | 31.5 | 802 | 39.5 | 416 | 22.3 | ||
| Primary | 755 | 19.4 | 497 | 24.6 | 258 | 13.5 | ||
| Secondary or higher | 1,997 | 49.2 | 839 | 35.9 | 1,158 | 64.2 | ||
| Highest level of husband's education | P<0.001 | |||||||
| No education | 504 | 13.7 | 364 | 19.0 | 140 | 7.6 | ||
| Primary | 840 | 21.4 | 542 | 26.4 | 298 | 15.7 | ||
| Secondary or higher | 2,621 | 64.9 | 1,229 | 54.5 | 1,392 | 76.7 | ||
| Women's job | P<0.001 | |||||||
| No job or low skilled job | 3,477 | 86.5 | 1,943 | 90.9 | 1,534 | 81.6 | ||
| Paid skilled jobs | 493.0 | 13.47 | 195 | 9.1 | 298 | 18.4 | ||
| Place of residence | P<0.001 | |||||||
| Urban | 2,314 | 55.5 | 1,157 | 48.5 | 1,157 | 63.5 | ||
| Rural | 1,656 | 44.5 | 981 | 51.5 | 675 | 36.5 | ||
| Exposure to mass media | P<0.001 | |||||||
| No exposure to radio or television | 2,740 | 69.7 | 1,620 | 77.0 | 1,120 | 61.3 | ||
| Exposure to either radio or television at least once a week | 757 | 18.3 | 327 | 13.6 | 430 | 23.5 | ||
| Exposure to both radio and television at least once a week | 473 | 12.1 | 191 | 9.4 | 282 | 15.2 | ||
% = weighted percentage Absolute number of participants does not perfectly correspond to percentages presented because weighted analyses were used. P-value is for the differentials of child marriage by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.