Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of recently delivered mothers
Sociodemographic characteristics | Baseline (% of mothers) N = 3158 | Endline (% of mothers) N = 3540 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor | Less poor | Middle | Upper middle | Rich | Poor | Less poor | Middle | Upper middle | Rich | |
n = 631 | n = 635 | n = 629 | n = 632 | n = 631 | n = 714 | n = 707 | n = 703 | n = 706 | n = 710 | |
Maternal age (in years) | ||||||||||
≤ 19 | 20.8 | 22.7 | 22.6 | 23.4 | 23.8 | 19.9 | 22.4 | 19.6 | 22.5 | 20.1 |
20–29 | 65.0 | 61.7 | 60.1 | 62.8 | 63.2 | 60.9 | 58.7 | 62.0 | 59.8 | 61.3 |
≥ 30 | 14.3 | 15.6 | 17.3 | 13.8 | 13.0 | 19.2 | 19.0 | 18.4 | 17.7 | 18.6 |
p-value | 0.454 | 0.858 | ||||||||
Maternal education level (in years) | ||||||||||
No schooling | 46.1 | 40.0 | 35.5 | 30.5 | 28.1 | 33.6 | 28.9 | 32.2 | 30.7 | 31.6 |
1–5 | 30.1 | 32.4 | 34.3 | 34.7 | 34.2 | 37.5 | 36.8 | 32.7 | 36.2 | 35.8 |
6–7 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 18.9 | 21.2 | 20.1 | 18.9 | 21.6 | 20.2 | 19.5 | 18.1 |
≥ 8 | 9.2 | 11.7 | 11.3 | 13.6 | 17.6 | 9.9 | 12.7 | 14.9 | 13.6 | 14.5 |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.161 | ||||||||
Husband education level (in years) | ||||||||||
No schooling | 52.5 | 47.6 | 41.5 | 38.0 | 34.2 | 42.0 | 43.0 | 42.5 | 42.2 | 40.9 |
1–5 | 24.1 | 22.1 | 27.8 | 25.5 | 27.3 | 28.9 | 24.9 | 25.3 | 26.1 | 27.4 |
6–7 | 8.4 | 11.0 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 11.4 | 12.5 | 13.6 | 12.7 | 10.4 | 8.9 |
≥ 8 | 15.1 | 19.4 | 18.9 | 23.3 | 27.1 | 16.7 | 18.5 | 19.5 | 21.3 | 22.9 |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.059 | ||||||||
Occupation | ||||||||||
Homemaker | 94.0 | 95.1 | 94.6 | 95.4 | 94.5 | 93.0 | 91.0 | 91.5 | 91.2 | 92.5 |
Others | 6.0 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 6.7 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 7.5 |
p-value | 0.808 | 0.648 | ||||||||
Reproductive History | ||||||||||
Primi-para | 32.3 | 32.0 | 31.3 | 39.4 | 37.6 | 27.5 | 33.1 | 30.3 | 32.0 | 33.1 |
Multi-para | 67.7 | 68.0 | 68.7 | 60.6 | 62.4 | 72.6 | 66.9 | 69.7 | 68.0 | 66.9 |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.110 | ||||||||