Table 2 Demographic characteristics of participants
| Â | Chakwal | Bhakkar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline n = 691 | Endline n = 1318 | p-value | Baseline n = 2585 | Endline n = 1296 | p-value | |
Mean ± SD |  |  | Mean ± SD |  |  | |
Age of MWRA | 32 ± 7.4 | 31.4 ± 6.3 | 0.057 | 30 ± 6.2 | 30.0 ± 6.6 | 1 |
Age of husband | 37 ± 8.6 | 36.9 ± 7.3 | 0.784 | 34 ± 7.5 | 34.4 ± 7.8 | 0.123 |
Age of women at time of marriage | 20 ± 3.7 | 20.4 ± 3.5 | 0.017 | 20 ± 3.3 | 19.6 ± 3.3 | < 0.001 |
Male members of household (a) | 3.3 ± 1.8 | 2.5 ± 1.2 | < 0.001 | 3.1 ± 1.7 | 3.2 ± 1.7 | 0.085 |
Female members of household (b) | 3.3 ± 1.8 | 2.4 ± 1.4 | < 0.001 | 3.1 ± 1.8 | 3.1 ± 1.8 | 1 |
Average household size | 6.5 ± 3.1 | 4.9 ± 2.1 | < 0.001 | 6.2 ± 2.9 | 6.3 ± 2.8 | 0.308 |
Husband is the Head of Household | 80.0 | 92.0 | < 0.0001 | 87.0 | 75.0 | < 0.001 |
Literacy level (%) | ||||||
 Illiterate | 32% | 11.5% | < 0.001 | 63% | 45.7% | < 0.001 |
 Can read, write and perform simple sums | 6% | 4.2% | 0.044 | 7% | 4.4% | 0.0002 |
 Primary (1 to 5) | 19% | 23.9% | 0.0105 | 15% | 23.8% | < 0.0001 |
 Middle (6 to 8) | 8% | 18.2% | < 0.0001 | 5% | 9.4% | < 0.0001 |
 Matriculation | 20% | 28.2% | < 0.0001 | 8% | 9.7% | 0.0368 |
 Intermediate | 6% | 8.2% | 0.1019 | 2% | 2.5% | 0.0517 |
 Graduate/postgraduate | 8% | 5.7% | 0.0883 | 4% | 4.4% | 1 |