Table 1.
Frequency distributions of participants according to demographic variables with reported physical and/or sexual IPV (n = 3966)
| Variable | Ever during marriage | During past year | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPV | No IPV | IPV | No IPV | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | p value | n | % | n | % | p value | |
| Age | 0.162 | 0.595 | ||||||||
| < 30 years | 373 | 32.6 | 996 | 35.3 | 174 | 33.5 | 228 | 31.4 | ||
| 30-34 years | 386 | 33.8 | 957 | 33.9 | 154 | 31.4 | 951 | 32.7 | ||
| 35+ years | 384 | 33.6 | 870 | 30.8 | 169 | 35.1 | 1174 | 36.0 | ||
| Pregnancy Status | 0.473 | 0.793 | ||||||||
| Pregnant | 79 | 6.9 | 222 | 7.9 | 40 | 7.7 | 261 | 7.6 | ||
| Postpartum < 6 months | 76 | 6.6 | 215 | 7.6 | 36 | 6.9 | 255 | 7.4 | ||
| Postpartum 6-12 months | 89 | 7.8 | 205 | 7.3 | 44 | 8.4 | 250 | 7.3 | ||
| Not Pregnant nor Postpartum | 899 | 78.7 | 2181 | 77.3 | 402 | 77.0 | 2678 | 77.8 | ||
| Parity (total live births) | 0.053 | 0.545 | ||||||||
| 1 | 239 | 20.9 | 660 | 23.4 | 122 | 23.4 | 777 | 22.6 | ||
| 2 | 217 | 19.0 | 598 | 21.2 | 99 | 19.0 | 716 | 20.8 | ||
| 3 | 222 | 19.4 | 528 | 18.7 | 92 | 17.6 | 658 | 19.1 | ||
| 4+ | 465 | 40.7 | 1037 | 36.7 | 209 | 40.0 | 1293 | 37.5 | ||
| Mother’s education | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||||||
| No schooling | 476 | 41.6 | 889 | 31.5 | 226 | 43.3 | 1139 | 33.1 | ||
| 1-5 years | 393 | 34.4 | 898 | 31.8 | 179 | 34.3 | 1112 | 32.3 | ||
| > 5 years | 274 | 24.0 | 1036 | 36.7 | 117 | 22.4 | 1193 | 34.6 | ||
| Husband’s education | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||||||
| No schooling | 554 | 48.5 | 1058 | 37.5 | 270 | 51.7 | 1342 | 39.0 | ||
| 1-5 years | 361 | 31.6 | 866 | 30.7 | 156 | 29.9 | 1071 | 31.1 | ||
| > 5 years | 228 | 19.9 | 899 | 31.8 | 96 | 18.4 | 1031 | 29.9 | ||
| Household wealth quintile | 0.011 | 0.005 | ||||||||
| Lowest | 175 | 15.3 | 533 | 18.9 | 89 | 17.1 | 619 | 18.0 | ||
| Second | 211 | 18.4 | 579 | 20.5 | 86 | 16.5 | 704 | 20.4 | ||
| Middle | 264 | 23.1 | 581 | 20.6 | 121 | 23.2 | 724 | 21.0 | ||
| Fourth | 255 | 22.3 | 551 | 19.5 | 133 | 25.5 | 673 | 19.5 | ||
| Highest | 238 | 20.8 | 579 | 20.5 | 93 | 17.8 | 724 | 21.0 | ||
| Religion | 0.003 | 0.052 | ||||||||
| Islam | 1089 | 95.3 | 2617 | 92.7 | 498 | 95.4 | 3208 | 93.2 | ||
| Hindu/Others | 54 | 4.7 | 206 | 7.3 | 24 | 4.6 | 236 | 6.9 | ||
| Father abused Mother | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||||||
| Yes | 200 | 17.5 | 91 | 3.2 | 95 | 18.2 | 196 | 5.7 | ||
| No | 695 | 60.8 | 2284 | 80.9 | 297 | 56.9 | 2682 | 77.9 | ||
| Do not Know | 248 | 21.7 | 448 | 15.9 | 130 | 24.9 | 566 | 16.4 | ||
| Members in household | 0.000 | 0.053 | ||||||||
| < 5 | 356 | 31.1 | 799 | 28.3 | 162 | 31.0 | 993 | 28.8 | ||
| 5-9 | 642 | 56.2 | 1508 | 53.4 | 292 | 55.9 | 1858 | 53.9 | ||
| 10+ | 145 | 12.7 | 516 | 18.3 | 68 | 13.0 | 593 | 17.2 | ||
| NGO member | 0.000 | 0.005 | ||||||||
| Yes | 187 | 16.4 | 303 | 10.7 | 84 | 16.1 | 406 | 11.8 | ||
| No | 956 | 83.6 | 2520 | 89.3 | 438 | 83.9 | 3038 | 88.2 | ||
| Total | 1143 | 28.8 | 2823 | 71.2 | 522 | 13.2 | 3444 | 86.8 | ||