Table 1.
Description of study sample
| Wives | Husbands | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | n | % | |
| Age (mean, median, mode, min., range, SD) | 33.9, 33, 28, 17, 57, 8.7 | 38.6, 38, 35, 22, 58, 8.9 | ||
| Age as at First Pregnancy | 26.9, 26, 25, 16, 23, 4.4 | 31.6, 32, 32, 21, 24, 4.5 | ||
| Years of marriage | 8.3, 6, 1, 1, 49, 7.5 | Same | ||
| Number of pregnancy ever had | 2.5, 2, 2, 0, 8, 1.6 | – | ||
| Present number of children | 2, 2, 2, 0, 8, 1.6 | – | ||
| Number of children outside wedlock | – | 0.6, 0, 0, 0, 9, 1.4 | ||
| Education | ||||
| No formal education | 8 | 1.6 | 24 | 4.7 |
| Primary education | 14 | 2.7 | 10 | 1.9 |
| Secondary education | 105 | 20.3 | 65 | 12.6 |
| Tertiary education | 389 | 75.4 | 417 | 80.8 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Yoruba | 411 | 79.6 | 451 | 87.4 |
| Igbo | 71 | 13.8 | 40 | 7.8 |
| Hausa | 34 | 6.6 | 25 | 4.8 |
| Occupation | ||||
| Unemployed | 10 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 |
| Self-employed | 135 | 26.2 | 167 | 32.4 |
| Public servant | 298 | 57.8 | 266 | 51.5 |
| Private employees | 73 | 14.1 | 83 | 16.1 |
| Overall | 516 | 100 | Same | |
Source: Researcher’s field study 2020