Sociodemographic characteristics at baseline of women and men enrolled in the Indashyikirwa couples’ cohort comparing those retained to those lost to follow-up
| Variable | Women | Men | ||||||||
| Retained (N=1617) | Lost (N=43) | P value | Retained (N=1536) | Lost (N=115) | P value | |||||
| N or mean | % or (SE) | N or mean | % or (SE) | N or mean | % or (SE) | N or mean | % or (SE) | |||
| Age of respondents | ||||||||||
| Mean age | 32.7 | (0.22) | 31.6 | (0.80) | 0.18 | 35.6 | (0.23) | 35.0 | (0.88) | 0.51 |
| ≤25 years | 256 | 15.8% | 9 | 20.9% | 0.63 | 112 | 7.3% | 11 | 9.6% | 0.59 |
| 26–35 years | 831 | 51.4% | 21 | 48.8% | 705 | 45.9% | 55 | 47.8% | ||
| >35 years | 530 | 32.8% | 13 | 30.2% | 719 | 46.8% | 49 | 42.6% | ||
| Education | ||||||||||
| No school | 281 | 17.6% | 7 | 17.1% | 0.36 | 239 | 15.7% | 26 | 23.0% | 0.08 |
| Primary (complete) | 1090 | 68.4% | 25 | 61.0% | 1019 | 67.0% | 69 | 61.1% | ||
| Secondary (complete) | 168 | 10.6% | 8 | 19.5% | 170 | 11.2% | 8 | 7.1% | ||
| Other schooling | 54 | 3.4% | ‡ | 2.4% | 92 | 6.1% | 10 | 8.9% | ||
| Relationship status | ||||||||||
| Married | 1072 | 66.3% | 24 | 55.8% | 0.17 | 1030 | 67.1% | 65 | 56.5% | 0.003 |
| Living as if married | 545 | 33.7% | 19 | 44.2% | 506 | 32.9% | 50 | 43.5% | ||
| VSLA membership | ||||||||||
| Wife | 692 | 42.8% | 19 | 44.2% | 0.82 | 445 | 29.0% | 41 | 35.7% | 0.32 |
| Husband | 253 | 15.7% | 8 | 18.6% | 288 | 18.8% | 17 | 14.8% | ||
| Both | 672 | 41.6% | 16 | 37.2% | 803 | 52.3% | 57 | 49.6% | ||
| Household assets | ||||||||||
| Bicycle | 532 | 33.2% | 10 | 23.8% | 0.17 | 511 | 33.3% | 32 | 27.8% | 0.28 |
| Cell phone | 1296 | 80.9% | 29 | 69.1% | 0.03 | 1248 | 81.3% | 82 | 71.3% | 0.02 |
| Radio | 1054 | 65.8% | 22 | 52.4% | 0.10 | 1017 | 66.3% | 63 | 54.8% | 0.04 |
| Electricity | 324 | 20.2% | 7 | 16.7% | 0.54 | 314 | 20.5% | 19 | 16.5% | 0.32 |
| HH has livestock | 946 | 58.5% | 17 | 39.5% | 0.03 | 913 | 59.6% | 58 | 50.9% | 0.06 |
| HH owns land | 1038 | 64.2% | 17 | 39.5% | <0.001 | 1054 | 68.6% | 65 | 56.5% | 0.01 |
| HH owns home | 1406 | 87.0% | 28 | 65.1% | <0.001 | 1375 | 89.6% | 97 | 84.4% | 0.04 |
| Weighted assets score* (range 0–15.2) | 7.0 | (0.19) | 5.2 | (0.65) | 0.004 | 7.1 | (0.18) | 6.06 | (0.48) | 0.02 |
| Who earns more | ||||||||||
| Husband more | 721 | 44.6% | 19 | 44.2% | 0.91 | 400 | 26.1% | 37 | 32.2% | 0.46 |
| About the same | 125 | 7.7% | 3 | 7.0% | 123 | 8.0% | 10 | 8.7% | ||
| Wife more | 147 | 9.1% | 5 | 11.6% | 136 | 8.9% | 10 | 8.7% | ||
| Do all work together | 623 | 38.6% | 16 | 37.2% | 875 | 57.0% | 58 | 50.4% | ||
| Previous experience of violence | ||||||||||
| Experienced physical or sexual IPV with a past partner (prior to current relationship) | 206 | 12.8% | 9 | 20.9% | 0.05 | 191 | 12.5% | 13 | 11.3% | 0.70 |
| Any prior sexual violence† | 784 | 48.6% | 26 | 60.5% | 0.08 | Not assessed | ||||
| Witnessed mother being beaten | 673 | 43.9% | 48 | 42.1% | 0.71 | |||||
| Beaten often or very often as a child | 425 | 27.7% | 41 | 35.7% | 0.02 | |||||
*Weighted asset score constructed by weighting each listed asset with its inverse frequency among participants and then summing weights for assets owned (ie, something owned by 50% of participants was weighted at 2.0 and something owned by 25% of participants weighted at 4.0; these weights were then summed for each asset owned).
†Defined as forced first sex, forced sex by a non-partner at any age, unwanted sexual touching at age <15.
‡ Cell size too small to report
HH, household; IPV, intimate partner violence; VSLA, village savings and loan association.