Table 2.
Bivariate analysis of sociodemographic characteristics of women and male partners and gender equality (attitudes towards IPV and decision-making power)
| Attitudes towards IPV | Decision-Making Power | |||||
| High support for IPV |
Medium support for IPV |
Low support for IPV |
Low decision- making power |
Medium decision- making power |
High decision- making power |
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| Sociodemographics, n (%) | ||||||
| Women age categories^^ | ||||||
| 15–19 | 54 (33.5) | 50 (31.1) | 57 (35.4) | 64 (29.5) | 101 (46.5) | 52 (24.0) |
| 20–24 | 139 (30.8) | 129 (28.5) | 184 (40.7) | 106 (17.5) | 288 (47.6) | 211 (34.9) |
| 25–29 | 90 (29.6) | 95 (31.3) | 119 (39.4) | 45 (10.7) | 173 (41.2) | 202 (48.1) |
| 30–49 | 78 (31.3) | 65 (26.1) | 106 (42.6) | 35 (10.5) | 128 (38.2) | 172 (51.3) |
| Men age categories | ||||||
| 18–24 | 64 (35.8) | 52 (29.1) | 63 (35.2) | 38 (21.8) | 85 (48.9) | 51 (29.3) |
| 25–34 | 175 (29.5) | 183 (30.8) | 236 (39.7) | 89 (15.1) | 256 (43.5) | 244 (41.4) |
| 35–44 | 93 (31.9) | 78 (26.7) | 121 (41.4) | 46 (15.9) | 112 (38.8) | 131 (45.3) |
| 45–68 | 31 (32.0) | 26 (26.8) | 40 (41.2) | 19 (19.2) | 45 (45.5) | 35 (35.6) |
| Women Level of education^^ | ||||||
| Primary or Lower | 181 (34.4) | 143 (27.2) | 202 (38.4) | 125 (18.7) | 309 (46.3) | 233 (34.9) |
| Secondary or Higher | 178 (28.0) | 195 (30.7) | 262 (41.3) | 124 (13.7) | 379 (41.9) | 401 (44.4) |
| Man Level of Education**^^ | ||||||
| Primary or Lower | 187 (35.4) | 145 (27.5) | 196 (37.1) | 106 (20.2) | 241 (46.0) | 177 (33.8) |
| Secondary or Higher | 178 (27.6) | 195 (30.3) | 271 (42.1) | 89 (14.0) | 260 (40.8) | 289 (45.3) |
| Woman's Religion | ||||||
| Catholic | 46 (36.8) | 38 (30.4) | 41 (32.8) | 28 (15.8) | 79 (44.6) | 70 (39.6) |
| Protestant/other Christian | 24 (32.9) | 19 (26.0) | 30 (41.1) | 17 (16.3) | 56 (53.8) | 31 (29.8) |
| Other | 34 (35.8) | 30 (31.6) | 31 (32.6) | 26 (17.5) | 56 (37.6) | 67 (45.0) |
| Man's Religion** | ||||||
| Catholic | 113 (34.4) | 88 (26.8) | 128 (38.9) | 63 (19.0) | 142 (42.9) | 126 (38.1) |
| Protestant/other Christian | 79 (36.2) | 56 (25.7) | 83 (38.1) | 28 (13.2) | 102 (48.1) | 82 (38.7) |
| Other | 56 (21.8) | 84 (32.7) | 117 (45.5) | 44 (17.0) | 102 (39.5) | 112 (43.4) |
| Women Employment^^ | ||||||
| Employed for wages | 14 (38.9) | 11 (30.6) | 11 (30.6) | 9 (16.3) | 14 (25.5) | 32 (58.2) |
| Self-employed | 29 (35.4) | 23 (28.1) | 30 (36.6) | 16 (14.5) | 44 (40.0) | 50 (45.5) |
| Other | 63 (35.4) | 53 (29.8) | 62 (34.8) | 49 (18.4) | 132 (49.4) | 86 (32.2) |
| Men Employment | ||||||
| Employed for wages | 77 (30.9) | 60 (24.1) | 112 (45.0) | 39 (15.6) | 101 (40.4) | 110 (44.0) |
| Self-employed | 133 (31.4) | 124 (29.3) | 166 (39.2) | 68 (16.2) | 187 (44.4) | 166 (39.4) |
| Other | 37 (28.9) | 41 (32.0) | 50 (39.1) | 27 (21.4) | 55 (43.6) | 44 (34.9) |
| Marital status* | ||||||
| Currently married | 51 (25.4) | 57 (28.4) | 93 (46.3) | 42 (16.2) | 124 (47.7) | 94 (36.2) |
| Not Married | 307 (32.1) | 281 (29.3) | 370 (38.6) | 206 (15.7) | 562 (42.9) | 541 (41.3) |
| Male Partner has other sexual partners |
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| Yes | 80 (33.1) | 76 (31.4) | 86 (35.5) | 52 (16.3) | 136 (42.6) | 131 (41.1) |
| No/Don't Know | 281 (30.5) | 261 (28.4) | 387 (41.1) | 197 (15.7) | 552 (44.0) | 506 (40.3) |
| Food Insecurity | ||||||
| Always have enough food and the kinds they want |
205 (32.2) | 186 (29.3) | 245 (38.5) | 147 (16.8) | 375 (43.0) | 351 (40.2) |
| Have enough food, but not always the kinds we want/Sometimes don't have enough/Often don't have enough |
155 (29.4) | 152 (28.8) | 221 (41.9) | 101 (14.4) | 313 (44.7) | 286 (40.9) |
| Proportion of expenses met by woman's earnings^^ |
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| None | 153 (29.8) | 145 (28.2) | 216 (42.0) | 3 (6.4) | 18 (38.3) | 26 (55.3) |
| Less than half | 117 (31.2) | 124 (33.1) | 134 (35.7) | 17 (12.8) | 45 (33.8) | 71 (53.4) |
| Half | 48 (33.3) | 36 (25.0) | 60 (41.7) | 18 (10.3) | 71 (40.8) | 85 (48.8) |
| More than half | 29 (32.2) | 19 (21.1) | 42 (46.7) | 57 (11.5) | 218 (43.8) | 223 (44.8) |
| All | 12 (31.6) | 13 (34.2) | 13 (34.2) | 152 (21.1) | 336 (46.7) | 231 (32.1) |
| Woman HIV status | ||||||
| Positive | 48 (40.0) | 31 (25.8) | 41 (34.2) | 17 (10.6) | 70 (43.5) | 74 (46.0) |
| Negative/Indeterminate/Didn't receive results |
308 (30.3) | 298 (29.4) | 409 (40.3) | 223 (16.2) | 600 (43.5) | 555 (40.3) |
Attitudes towards IPV
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