Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Marital Quality and Key Covariates Used in Analyses

	Husbands				Wives
	Nonmigrant (N = 138)		Migrant (N = 129)		Nonmigrant (N = 138)		Migrant (N = 129)
Measure	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Marital quality, Time 1 (2008)
Disagree (1–4)b	3.17	0.55	3.16	0.69	2.98	0.71	3.18	0.62
Spouse criticize (1–4)	3.28	0.65	3.47	0.64	3.44	0.67	3.50	0.71
Love spouse (1–4)a	3.18	0.69	3.30	0.58	3.36	0.66	3.43	0.67
Marital quality, Time 2 (2014)
Disagree (1–4)a	3.06	0.56	3.20	0.56	3.05	0.56	3.09	0.63
Spouse criticize (1–4)a	3.25	0.68	3.47	0.53	3.34	0.57	3.47	0.60
Love spouse (2–4)a	3.27	0.53	3.45	0.51	3.36	0.64	3.50	0.55
Marital characteristics (2008)
No choice in recent spouse	0.18		0.23		0.46		0.57
Joint choice in recent spouse	0.29		0.27		0.17		0.14
Full choice in recent spouse	0.53		0.50		0.36		0.29
Age at first marriage (10–32)a	22.99	3.51	21.67	3.38	18.64	2.83	18.06	2.51
Any children	0.93		0.88		0.93		0.86
Duration of marriage (0–19)	7.64	4.08	7.41	4.68	7.69	4.27	7.44	4.48
Other important factors (2008)
Educational attainment (0–16)	8.43	4.07	7.74	3.12	7.00	3.71	6.68	3.43
Wage worka	0.23		0.12		0.38		0.37
Travel outside Nepal	0.34		0.29		0.04		0.08
Family or friend travel experienceb	0.91		0.94		0.72		0.87
Caste/ethnicity
Brahmin/Chhetri	0.44		0.45		0.43		0.45
Dalit	0.10		0.14		0.09		0.14
Newar	0.19		0.22		0.19		0.22
Terai Janajati	0.07		0.02		0.07		0.02
Hill Janajati	0.20		0.16		0.22		0.16

Note: Dimensions of marital quality measures are coded from 1 to 4, with higher values indicating higher quality marriage. Ranges in parentheses.

^aIndicates statistically significant difference between migrant husbands and nonmigrant husbands

^bindicates statistically significant (p < .05) difference between migrants’ wives and nonmigrants’ wives; two-sample t-tests.