Table 4.

Prevalence rates and changes in women’s attitudes towards traditional gender roles in relationships and attitudes towards acceptability of a man hitting his wife

Attitude item	Freq % (95% CI)*		Odds ratio (95% CI)*	P value
	2003 (n=2674)	2019 (n=944)
Roles of women and men in relationships
A good wife obeys her husband even if she disagrees	371 13.6 (12.0 to 15.4)	108 14.7 (10.8 to 19.8)	1.10 (0.75 to 1.61)	0.6
Family problems should only be discussed with people in the family	1076 39.5 (37.2 to 41.9)	274 27.6 (24.0 to 31.4)	0.58 (0.47 to 0.72)	0.001
It is important for a man to show his partner who is boss	201 7.4 (6.2 to 8.7)	32 3.1 (2.1 to 4.7)	0.40 (0.25 to 0.64)	0.001
A woman should be able to choose her own friends even if her husband disapproves (disagree)	169 6.0 (5.1 to 7.2)	66 7.3 (5.5 to 9.6)	1.23 (0.87 to 1.74)	0.2
It’s a wife obligation to have sex with her husband even if she doesn’t feel like	216 8.1 (6.9 to 9.4)	56 5.8 (4.1 to 8.0)	0.70 (0.47 to 1.03)	0.07
Agreed with at least one statement	1337 48.1 (45.7 to 50.5)	365 38.4 (33.8 to 43.2)	0.67 (0.54 to 0.83)	0.001
Acceptability of a man hitting his wife
She doesn’t complete her household work to his satisfaction	9 0.3 (0.1 to 0.6)	5 0.4 (0.1 to 1.2)	1.47 (0.40 to 5.36)	0.5
She disobeys him	18 0.5 (0.3 to 0.9)	8 0.7 (0.3 to 1.5)	1.32 (0.52 to 3.34)	0.5
She refuses to have sex with him	9 0.2 (0.1 to 0.5)	5 0.5 (0.2 to 1.3)	1.99 (0.60 to 6.62)	0.2
She asks him whether he has other girlfriends	18 0.5 (0.3 to 1.0)	3 0.2 (0.04 to 0.7)	0.31 (0.07 to 1.39)	0.1
He suspects that she is unfaithful	36 1.3 (0.9 to 1.9)	8 0.7 (0.3 to 1.5)	0.52 (0.22 to 1.25)	0.1
He finds out she has been unfaithful	107 3.8 (3.0 to 4.8)	17 1.8 (1.0 to 3.3)	0.46 (0.24 to 0.90)	0.02
Agreed with at least one statement	107 3.5 (2.8 to 4.5)	22 2.3 (1.4 to 3.8)	0.64 (0.35 to 0.1.14)	0.1

*Weighted % and ORs with 95% CIs are presented.