Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of women at baseline and endline in treatment and comparison areas
| Variable | Baseline (2011) |
Endline (2015) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment = 0 | Treatment = 1 | p-value | Treatment = 0 | Treatment = 1 | p-value | ||
| Age | 15–24 | 592 (38.6%) | 595 (38.6%) | 0.11 | 471 (37.1%) | 467 (37.3%) | 0.82 |
| 25–29 | 231 (15.0%) | 208 (13.5%) | 161 (12.7%) | 141 (11.3%) | |||
| 30–34 | 215 (14.0%) | 243 (15.8%) | 166 (13.1%) | 173 (13.8%) | |||
| 35–39 | 242 (15.8%) | 207 (13.4%) | 173 (13.6%) | 179 (14.3%) | |||
| 40–49 | 255 (16.6%) | 287 (18.6%) | 298 (23.5%) | 292 (23.3%) | |||
| Education | No education | 278 (18.1%) | 281 (18.2%) | 0.86 | 237 (18.7%) | 211 (16.9%) | 0.42 |
| Less than secondary | 1031 (67.2%) | 1043 (67.7%) | 828 (65.2%) | 845 (67.5%) | |||
| Secondary or more | 226 (14.7%) | 216 (14.0%) | 204 (16.1%) | 196 (15.7%) | |||
| Wealth index/ SES Status | Poorest | 345 (22.5%) | 424 (27.5%) | 0.003** | 229 (18.0%) | 234 (18.7%) | 0.003** |
| Poor | 313 (20.4%) | 279 (18.1%) | 174 (13.7%) | 232 (18.5%) | |||
| Better | 268 (17.5%) | 289 (18.8%) | 282 (22.2%) | 224 (17.9%) | |||
| Less poor | 343 (22.3%) | 287 (18.6%) | 228 (18.0%) | 240 (19.2%) | |||
| Least poor | 266 (17.3%) | 261 (16.9%) | 295 (23.2%) | 276 (22.0%) | |||
| Missing data | – | – | 61 (4.8%) | 46 (3.7%) | |||
| Religion | Christian | 703 (45.9%) | 740 (48.1%) | 0.053 | 559 (44.1%) | 593 (47.4%) | 0.009** |
| Muslim | 774 (50.5%) | 765 (49.7%) | 634 (50.0%) | 618 (49.4%) | |||
| Traditional/ Other | 53 (3.5%) | 35 (2.3%) | 73 (5.8%) | 39 (3.1%) | |||
| No response/ missing | 3 (0.2%) | 2 (0.2%) | |||||
| Parity | 0 | 344 (22.4%) | 325 (21.1%) | 0.20 | 349 (27.5%) | 346 (27.6%) | 0.59 |
| 1–2 | 419 (27.3%) | 439 (28.5%) | 345 (27.2%) | 312 (24.9%) | |||
| 3–4 | 394 (25.7%) | 358 (23.3%) | 282 (22.2%) | 288 (23.0%) | |||
| 5+ | 378 (24.6%) | 417 (27.1%) | 293 (23.1%) | 306 (24.4%) | |||
| Marital status | Married | 820 (53.4%) | 856 (55.6%) | 0.84 | 597 (47.0%) | 620 (49.5%) | 0.23 |
| Living with partner | 172 (11.2%) | 162 (10.5%) | 165 (13.0%) | 156 (12.5%) | |||
| Divorced | 87 (5.7%) | 87 (5.6%) | 77 (6.1%) | 94 (7.5%) | |||
| Widowed | 33 (2.1%) | 28 (1.8%) | 28 (2.2%) | 31 (2.5%) | |||
| Single | 421 (27.4%) | 406 (26.4%) | 400 (31.5%) | 347 (27.7%) | |||
| No response/ Missing | 2 (0.1%) | 1 (0.1%) | 2 (0.2%) | 4 (0.3%) | |||
| Modern use of FP | 496 (32.3%) | 508 (33.0%) | 0.69 | 388 (30.6%) | 393 (31.4%) | 0.66 | |
| Number of respondents | 1535 | 1540 | 1269 | 1252 | |||
**p < 0.01