Table 1a.
Descriptive statistics of attitudes, norms, physical health, and mental health (Bangladesh).
| Overall |
Male |
Female |
Rural |
Urban |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | |||||
| Attitudes and Normsrowhead | |||||
| Attitudes (0–16; higher scores are more gendered) | 5.619 | 5.349 | 5.897 | 5.954 | 5.521 |
| (2.180) | (2.028) | (2.294) | (2.022) | (2.215) | |
| Norms (0–14; higher scores are more gendered) | 7.343 | 7.401 | 7.326 | ||
| (1.295) | (1.082) | (1.351) | |||
| Physical Healthrowhead | |||||
| Height for age z-score | 0.331 | 0.190 | 0.476 | 0.130 | 0.391 |
| (1.293) | (1.184) | (1.383) | (1.395) | (1.256) | |
| Body mass index for age z-Score | -0.055 | -0.035 | -0.075 | -0.450 | 0.062 |
| (1.463) | (1.398) | (1.527) | (1.298) | (1.488) | |
| = 1 If self-reported health good or very good | 0.890 | 0.896 | 0.884 | 0.951 | 0.873 |
| (0.312) | (0.305) | (0.320) | (0.215) | (0.334) | |
| = 1 If adolescent experienced health symptom in past 4 weeks or serious illness or injury in past 12 months | 0.170 | 0.113 | 0.228 | 0.145 | 0.177 |
| (0.375) | (0.317) | (0.420) | (0.353) | (0.382) | |
| = 1 If adolescent experienced hunger in the past four weeks | 0.0351 | 0.0303 | 0.0400 | 0.0618 | 0.0272 |
| (0.184) | (0.171) | (0.196) | (0.241) | (0.163) | |
| Mental Healthrowhead | |||||
| General Health Questionnaire 12 Index (0–12; higher indicates worse mental health) | 1.228 | 1.227 | 1.229 | 0.707 | 1.382 |
| (1.461) | (1.438) | (1.486) | (1.204) | (1.495) | |
| Rosenberg's Self Esteem Scale (10–40; larger values equal higher self-esteem) | 30.24 | 30.22 | 30.25 | 30.67 | 30.11 |
| (3.498) | (3.515) | (3.482) | (3.348) | (3.532) | |
| Control Variablerowheads | |||||
| Asset deciles | 6.570 | 6.402 | 6.744 | 4.669 | 7.129 |
| (2.859) | (2.877) | (2.831) | (2.968) | (2.572) | |
| Indicator for having a friend he/she trusts | 0.932 | 0.938 | 0.927 | 0.935 | 0.932 |
| (0.251) | (0.241) | (0.261) | (0.247) | (0.252) | |
| Index of talking to primary female caregiver (0–4) | 2.262 | 2.299 | 2.224 | 2.161 | 2.292 |
| (0.633) | (0.631) | (0.633) | (0.652) | (0.624) | |
| Indicator for female | 0.507 | 1.000 | 0,000 | 0.496 | 0.510 |
| (0.500) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.501) | (0.500) | |
| Indicator for urban | 0.773 | 0.778 | 0.768 | 0.000 | 1.000 |
| (0.419) |
(0.416) |
(0.423) |
(0.000) |
(0.000) |
|
| Sample size: Individuals | 1623 | 841 | 782 | 451 | 1172 |
| Sample size: Communities | 111 | 111 | 111 | 36 | 75 |
Notes: This table summarizes the independent and dependent variables from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) Bangladesh quantitative survey. Means are weighted to make them representative of the study communities. We restrict our sample to adolescents those that have defined attitude and norm measures. There are small differences in sample sizes across outcomes. For ease of presentation, the sample size at the bottom of each column reflects the maximum sample size for that subsample; the specific sample size for each outcome can be seen in the regression tables.