Background characteristics of respondents
| All | Low use of maternal and child health services | |||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Household size | 6.1 | 2.44 | 6.1 | 2.35 |
| Mother’s age (years) | 26.6 | 4.44 | 26.8 | 4.65 |
| Mother can read and write (%) | 59 | 53 | ||
| Number children below 3 years of age | 1.1 | 0.29 | 1.1 | 0.27 |
| Age of youngest child (months) | 16.4 | 7.75 | 16.7 | 8.34 |
| Poor household (%) | 40 | 43 | ||
| ANC visits during last pregnancy (%) | ||||
| None | 7 | 12 | ||
| 1–3 | 65 | 78 | ||
| 4–8 | 26 | 8 | ||
| 9–15 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 100 | 100 | |||
| Children with no growth monitoring in last 12 months (%) | 15 | 28 | ||
| Travel time to nutrition (AWC) centre (minutes) | 10.7 | 11.28 | 11.5 | 11.40 |
| N (observations) | 405 | 218 | ||
AWC, Anganwadi Center.