Table 1 Characteristics of sample of girls included in longitudinal cohort at baseline (2016) and 2 years later (end line), Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Baseline Full Sample | Baseline (Grade 8) Matched Cohort | End Line Matched Cohort | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | |
Mpumalanga | ||||||
Response rate at end line (%) | ||||||
Full sample | na | na | na | na | 87.4% | 85.8% |
Full sample removing those without contact information | na | na | na | na | 93.1% | 91.3% |
Demographics | ||||||
Mean age | 13.61 | 13.55 | 13.55 | 13.46 | 15.58 | 15.40 |
Orphanhood (%) | ||||||
Non-orphan | 60.01 | 63.15 | 61.27 | 64.03 | 59.96 | 62.03 |
Single orphan | 29.83 | 27.46 | 29.30 | 26.94 | 31.64 | 29.79 |
Double orphan | 10.17 | 9.39 | 9.43 | 9.03 | 8.40 | 8.18 |
Religion (%) | ||||||
Christian | 80.96 | 79.22 | 82.14 | 79.75 | 90.50 | 92.93 |
Traditional | 12.40 | 14.05 | 11.50 | 14.24 | 7.18 | 5.01 |
Other | 6.64 | 6.73 | 6.36 | 6.00 | 2.32 | 2.06 |
Food security (%) | ||||||
No days without food in past 3 days | 75.08 | 76.44 | 75.58 | 77.81 | 80.00 | 83.70 |
Any days without food in past 3 days | 24.92 | 23.56 | 24.42 | 22.19 | 20.00 | 16.30 |
HIV-positive person in household (%) | ||||||
Someone is HIV positive | 12.61 | 9.70 | 11.23 | 8.89 | 16.08 | 12.55 |
No one is HIV positive | 58.63 | 59.94 | 59.55 | 60.22 | 56.12 | 58.43 |
Don’t know if anyone in household is HIV positive, % | 28.76 | 30.36 | 28.75 | 30.60 | 27.79 | 29.02 |
Number of observations | 833 | 785 | 726 | 668 | 726 | 668 |
KwaZulu-Natal | ||||||
Response rate at end line (%) | ||||||
Full sample | na | na | na | na | 72.4% | 71.0% |
Full sample removing those without contact information | na | na | na | na | 78.6% | 79.0% |
Demographics | ||||||
Mean age | 13.55 | 13.62 | 13.47 | 13.53 | 15.48 | 15.52 |
Orphanhood (%) | ||||||
Non-orphan | 54.97 | 57.55 | 55.99 | 58.34 | 55.76 | 56.10 |
Single orphan | 31.64 | 30.40 | 31.47 | 29.38 | 33.29 | 31.10 |
Double orphan | 13.39 | 12.05 | 12.55 | 12.29 | 10.94 | 12.80 |
Religion (%) | ||||||
Christian | 59.05 | 55.14 | 60.85 | 53.71 | 61.80 | 58.04 |
Traditional | 26.89 | 32.16 | 26.08 | 34.62 | 29.47 | 33.76 |
Other | 14.07 | 12.70 | 13.07 | 11.67 | 8.73 | 8.20 |
Food security (%) | ||||||
No days without food in past 3 days | 69.13 | 66.70 | 70.36 | 68.83 | 76.79 | 74.66 |
Any days without food in past 3 days | 30.87 | 33.30 | 29.64 | 31.17 | 23.21 | 25.34 |
HIV-positive person in household (%) | ||||||
Someone is HIV positive | 16.11 | 13.99 | 15.38 | 14.03 | 21.92 | 21.39 |
No one is HIV positive | 57.02 | 60.34 | 58.91 | 60.90 | 47.58 | 49.03 |
Don’t know if anyone in household is HIV positive, % | 26.87 | 25.67 | 24.86 | 24.67 | 30.51 | 29.57 |
Number of observations | 1040 | 925 | 751 | 657 | 751 | 657 |