Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of currently married women by study sample, Uttar Pradesh, India
Characteristics | Fecund, non-pregnant women in FP sample | Women who had a birth in last 3 years (institutional delivery) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Percentage | Weighted N | Percentage | Weighted N | |
Age | ||||
<25 | 16.9 | 2467 | 33.8 | 1832 |
25-29 | 22.2 | 3253 | 37.8 | 2049 |
30-34 | 22.2 | 3255 | 20.2 | 1097 |
35-49 | 38.7 | 5659 | 8.3 | 448 |
Education | ||||
None | 30.8 | 4511 | 33.4 | 1811 |
1-7 years education | 12.4 | 1815 | 12.7 | 688 |
8-11 years education | 22.1 | 3235 | 21.3 | 1155 |
12+ years education | 34.7 | 5073 | 32.7 | 1772 |
Wealth group | ||||
Poorest | 21.2 | 3104 | 23.1 | 1256 |
Poor | 20.4 | 2980 | 20.4 | 1108 |
Middle | 20.5 | 2994 | 19.2 | 1041 |
Rich | 19.4 | 2839 | 19.4 | 1054 |
Richest | 18.5 | 2716 | 17.8 | 969 |
Residential site | ||||
Slum | 18.2 | 2666 | 19.6 | 1063 |
Non-slum | 81.8 | 11967 | 80.4 | 4364 |
Parity | ||||
1 | 24.3 | 3549 | 31.2 | 1693 |
2 | 27.3 | 3997 | 28.8 | 1565 |
3 | 19.9 | 2910 | 16.3 | 886 |
4+ | 28.5 | 4117 | 23.7 | 1284 |
City | ||||
Agra | 24.1 | 3520 | 26.6 | 1442 |
Aligarh | 11.6 | 1701 | 13.8 | 748 |
Allahabad | 19.2 | 2812 | 17.9 | 969 |
Gorakhpur | 15.4 | 2258 | 14.1 | 763 |
Moradabad | 9.2 | 1339 | 9.1 | 494 |
Varanasi | 20.5 | 3003 | 18.6 | 1011 |
Caste | ||||
Scheduled caste or tribe | 18.4 | 2686 | 20.3 | 1103 |
Other backward caste | 42.6 | 6228 | 46.6 | 2529 |
None | 39.1 | 5719 | 33.1 | 1796 |
Religion | ||||
Hindi | 96.3 | 14096 | 96.8 | 5252 |
Muslim/other | 3.7 | 537 | 3.2 | 176 |
Household type and presence of mother-in-law | ||||
Lives in husband’s natal home with mother-in-law | 27.9 | 4089 | 36.1 | 1960 |
Lives in husband’s natal home only | 34.6 | 5056 | 29.1 | 1580 |
Lives with mother-in-law only | 3.9 | 497 | 3.0 | 163 |
Not natal home and no mother-in-law | 34.1 | 4992 | 31.8 | 1724 |
Presence of elder sister-in-law | 2.8 | 408 | 3.5 | 192 |