TABLE 2.

Associations Between Characteristics of Pregnant Women and Children and ELC and GM Scores

Characteristics	ELC Score		GM Score
N = 636	Mean	P	Mean	P
Gender
Girl	99.2	.21	50.2	.14
Boy	97.8		51.8
Weight-for-age z score a	0.2 c	<.001	0.3 c	<.001
Gravidity
Primigravida	99.8	.28	48.2	.02
Multigravida	98.2		51.6
Maternal education
Never schooled	96.2	<.001	49.4	<.001
Primary or more	102.9		54.1
Maternal occupation
Housewives	96.1	<.001	49.2	.002
Employed	100.8		52.8
Prepregnancy BMI
Underweight	96.4	.07	48.9	.03
Normal	98.6		50.9
Overweight/obese	101.5		54.8
Family possession score b	0.1 c	.005	0.2 c	<.001
HOME score b	0.2 c	<.0001	0.2 c	<.001
RPM score b	0.1 c	.03	0.1 c	.002
EPDS score b	−0.0 c	.98	−0.0 c	.67

EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; RPM, Raven’s Progressive Matrices.

^a N = 629.

^b N = 631.

^cRepresented as correlation coefficients not means.