TABLE 2.

Selected characteristics of the study sample

	NPNL women (n = 2,903)	Pregnant women (n = 197)	Lactating women (n = 944)
Individual characteristics
Age, years	34.7 ± 7.5 a	26.0 ± 6.2 ***	26.8 ± 5.9 ***
Adolescents (15‐19y; %)	1.4	10.5 ***	4.7 ***
Age at marriage, years	16.6 ± 2.8	17.3 ± 3.2 **	17.1 ± 2.7 ***
Weight, kg	48.6 ± 8.9	49.6 ± 8.5	45.1 ± 7.4 ***
Height, cm	150.6 ± 5.7	150.8 ± 6.1	150.7 ± 6.3
Height below height 145 cm (%)	15.4	14.9	13.2
BMI, kg/m2	21.4 ± 3.6	21.71 ± 3.1	19.9 ± 2.9 ***
Marital status (%)
Currently married	96.0	100.0 ***	99.1 ***
Widowed	3.1	0.0 ***	0.6 ***
Divorced/separated	0.9	0.0 ***	0.3 *
Relationship with HH head(%)
Self (i.e., is female head of the HH)	16.2	9.6 **	11.8 **
Wife	82.1	83.9	85.8 **
Daughter	0.4	1.7	0.5
Daughter‐in‐law	1.3	4.8 *	2.0
Education (%)
No schooling	44.3	32.0 **	29.6 ***
Primary	28.3	26.5	31.6
Secondary	25.7	40.5 ***	36.9 ***
High school or higher	1.7	1.0	1.9
Has a child <2 years of age (%)	2.2	10.0 **	71.4 ***
Income‐earning (%)	64.6	46.9 ***	53.2 ***
Consumed at least three main meals (%)	94.9	96.4	96.3
HH characteristics
HH size	4.2 ± 1.4	3.7 ± 1.4 ***	4.5 ± 1.4 ***
Monthly HH expenditure, USD b	28.3 c (21.1–;38.8)	30.3 (22.5–;39.4)	23.1 *** (17.7–;31.3)
Food‐secure HH, %	74.5	80.8 *	74.2
Owns livestock, %	81.6	79.2	74.6 ***
Engaged in fishing for self‐consumption, %	32.9	33.1	32.9
Community level characteristics
Visited by CHW	14.4	23.8 *	27.1 ***

Note. All comparisons are relative to NPNL women as the reference category

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CHW, community health worker; HH, household; NPNL, nonpregnant, nonlactating women.

^aMean ± SD (all such values).

^bUSD = US dollars, 1 USD = 82 Bangladeshi Taka (on average since 2012).

^cMedian (Q1–;Q3); all such values.

^* p < 0.05.

^** p < 0.01.

^*** p < 0.001.