Table 1 Sample characteristics (N = 1228)

Demographic

Number of women

(50.7)

Age

   Mean age (low-high range)

(18-81 years)

   Age 18-24 years

(30.0)

   Age 25-49 years

(59.3)

   Age 50-74 years

(10.2)

   Age 75+ years

(0.5)

Religion:

   Christian

(91.9)

   Muslim

(7.5)

   other

(0.6)

Ethnicity:

   Bari Speaking

(49.3)

   Muru

(12.1)

   Madi

(5.9)

   other

(32.8)

Marital status:

   married

(73.2)

   single

(20.2)

   divorced/separated (includes forcefully separated)

(2.0)

   widowed

(4.6)

Education level:

   never attended school

26.5

   completed or partially primary school

31.5

   completed or partially completed secondary school

30.8

   completed post-secondary school (e.g. college)

11.2

Current/recent living conditions

   no soap currently in household

64.7

   drinking from unprotected water source

34.9

   lack food or water (in past 12 months)

29.2

   lack medical care when ill (in past 12 months)

24.5

   lack shelter/housing (in past 12 months)

13.1

   Currently internally displaced persons

(12.6)

Lifetime exposure to violent and traumatic events

   unnatural death of family/friend

59.9

   combat situation

51.5

   murder of family/friend

49.7

   forcibly displaced (internally displaced or refugee)

35.9

   close to death

35.1

   forced separation from family

25.9

   serious injury

25.7

   tortured or beaten

20.2

   forced isolation from others

18.8

   murder of stranger or strangers

18.6

   forced to accept thoughts against will

13.9

   imprisonment

13.7

   being abducted or kidnapped

8.3

   rape or sexual abuse

6.7