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Table 3 Reported wife’s household decision-making involvement and IPV attitudes among married men in need of contraception in Afghanistan, 2017 (n = 885)

From: Factors associated with reported modern contraceptive use among married men in Afghanistan

Variable

IDP (n = 265)

n (%)

Total (n = 885)

n (%)

Wife’s involvement in household decision-making: wife involved in decision, by decision type

 How income is spent

105 (39.6)

560 (63.3)

 Making major household purchases

124 (46.8)

600 (67.8)

 Health care for family

139 (52.5)

637 (72.0)

Wife’s involvement in household decision-making: combined variable

 Wife not involved in decisions

96 (36.2)

179 (20.2)

 Wife involved in some decisions

89 (33.6)

216 (24.4)

 Wife involved in all decisions

80 (30.2)

490 (55.4)

Attitudes towards IPV: Agrees that a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife if:

 She goes out without telling him

(n = 263)

(n = 871)

116 (44.1)

275 (31.6)

 She neglects the children

 

(n = 875)

55 (20.8)

152 (17.4)

 She argues with him

(n = 260)

(n = 867)

59 (22.7)

167 (19.3)

 She burns the food

(n = 262)

(n = 872)

32 (12.2)

80 (9.2)

 She refuses to have sex with him

(n = 245)

(n = 801)

51 (20.8)

116 (14.5)

Attitudes towards IPV: combined variable

(n = 253)

(n = 831)

 IPV justified in ≥1 circumstance

145 (57.3)

386 (46.5)

 IPV not justified in any circumstance

108 (42.7)

445 (53.5)