Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for assessed variables.
| Mean (SD) |
Global Moran's I |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Test statistic | p-value | ||
| Child marriage prevalence (%) | 25.3 (13.7) | 0.71 | 0.01 |
| Geography | |||
| Log distance to state border (per 100 km) | 8.2 (0.9) | 0.46 | 0.01 |
| Log density (population/km2) | −1.0 (1.2) | 0.69 | 0.01 |
| Log area (km2) | 15.1 (1.0) | 0.47 | 0.01 |
| Sociodemographics | |||
| Rural residents (%) | 71.6 (21.5) | 0.43 | 0.01 |
| SC/ST or OBC (%) | 74.7 (20.3) | 0.65 | 0.01 |
| Muslim (%) | 12.6 (17.4) | 0.74 | 0.01 |
| Female education (years) | 9.0 (2.1) | 0.70 | 0.01 |
| Female:male sex ratio at birth among births in the last six years (per 1000) | 902.5 (59.9) | 0.31 | 0.01 |
| District-state differences in prevalence of child marriage (%) | 0.6 (9.4) | 0.35 | 0.01 |
| Media connectivity | |||
| Female weekly television use (%) | 68.7 (22.1) | 0.75 | 0.01 |
| Female weekly radio use (%) | 10.3 (9.2) | 0.68 | 0.01 |
| Female weekly newspaper use (%) | 24.3 (14.5) | 0.64 | 0.01 |
| Female mobile phone access (%) | 45.6 (16.9) | 0.66 | 0.01 |
| Household has internet access (%) | 13.1 (12.3) | 0.64 | 0.01 |
| Community connectivity | |||
| Female microcredit program awareness (%) | 37.4 (17.6) | 0.54 | 0.01 |
| Female microcredit program utilization (%) | 15.9 (12.5) | 0.44 | 0.01 |
SD = standard deviation.