Table 2.

Descriptive characteristics of the study population of women of reproductive age (n 2599) participating in the Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in rural north-eastern Bangladesh, 2015

Variable	n	%	Variable	n	%
Woman’s age (years)			Woman’s education
15–18	162	6	None	440	17
19–21	503	20	Partial primary	558	21
22–25	865	33	Primary	613	24
26–30	858	33	Partial secondary	841	32
≥31	211	8	Secondary or more	147	6
Age at first marriage (years)			Live births
≤16	678	26	0	301	12
17–18	990	38	1	773	30
19–20	586	23	2	749	29
≥21	345	13	≥3	776	30
Years since first marriage			Stillbirths in last year
≤2	481	19	No	2565	99
3–4	467	18	Yes	34	1
5–6	444	17
7–8	402	15	Currently breast-feeding	1418	55
9–10	343	13
>10	462	17	Social support
Religion			Little (0–3 points)	433	17
Muslim	1787	69	Some (4 points)	615	24
Hindu	812	31	A lot (5 points)	1551	60
Wealth			Decision-making ability
Quintile 1 (poorest)	654	25	Unable (0 points)	661	25
Quintile 2	565	22	Little (1 point)	646	25
Quintile 3	508	20	Some (2 points)	566	22
Quintile 4	460	18	High (3–6 points)	726	28
Quintile 5 (richest)	412	16	Mobility outside home
Household size			Unable (0 points)	572	22
1–4 members	644	25	May be able (1 point)	1027	40
5–9 members	1395	54	Somewhat able (2 points)	548	21
≥10 members	560	22	Able (3 points)	452	17
Woman’s literacy			Communication
Literate	1683	65	Unable or little (0–4 points)	631	24
Partially literate	244	9	Somewhat able (5 points)	1214	46
Illiterate	672	26	Able (6–8 points)	754	29