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Table 2 Participants’ characteristics

From: Community mobilisation to prevent violence against women and girls in eastern India through participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by accredited social health activists: a before-and-after pilot study

  BASELINE ENDLINE P 1
n % n %
Tribe or Caste
Adivasi (Scheduled Tribe) 445 65.5 574 63.5  
 Scheduled Caste 41 6.0 43 5.0  
 Other Backward Class 192 28.3 269 31.2  
 None of the above 1 0.1 2 0.2 0.522
Literacy
 Cannot read or with difficulty 452 66.6 458 53.2  
 Can read 227 33.4 403 46.8 < 0.001
Has a regular source of income3
 Yes 292 43.0 295 34.3  
 No 387 57.0 566 65.7 < 0.001
Occupation
 Salaried job 16 2.4 29 3.4  
 Farming 205 30.2 162 18.8  
 Labourer 203 29.9 353 41.0  
 Housewife 248 36.5 283 32.9  
 Student 7 1.0 16 1.9  
 Small business 0 0.0 18 2.1 < 0.001
Card ownership
 Above Poverty Line (APL) 19 2.8 1 0.1  
 Antyodaya 219 32.2 202 23.5  
 Below Poverty Line (BPL) 276 40.6 603 70.0  
 None of the above 165 24.3 55 6.4 < 0.001
Socio-economically disadvantaged4
 Yes 155 22.8 129 15.0  
 No 524 77.2 732 85.0 < 0.001
Family type
 Nuclear 440 64.0 553 64.2  
 Joint 237 34.9 305 35.4  
 Extended 2 0.3 3 0.3 0.960
Marital status
 Married 532 78.3 670 77.8  
 Unmarried 44 6.5 52 6.0  
 Widow 103 15.2 135 15.7  
 Divorced/separated 0 0 4 0.5 0.341
Total respondents 679 100 861 100  
  1. 1P values for differences in participants’ characteristics between baseline and endline derived from chi-squared tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables
  2. 3 Defined as daily wage rather than seasonal or other types of intermittent wage
  3. 4 Defined as being Adivasi and not having a bank account