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Table 3 Socio-demographic characteristics of participants (baseline and follow-up)

From: Engaging men in women’s empowerment: impact of a complex gender transformative intervention on household socio-economic and health outcomes in the eastern democratic republic of the Congo using a longitudinal survey

 

Baseline

Follow-up

Intervention

Control

Total

Intervention

Control

Total

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

 

N (%)

 

Province

n = 1239

n = 573

n = 1812

n = 730

n = 316

n = 1046

North-Kivu

600(48.4)

269(47.0)

869(48.0)

282(38.6)

115(36.4)

397(38.0)

South-Kivu

639(51.6)

304(53.0)

943(52.0)

448(61.4)

201(63.6)

649(62.0)

Urban

n = 1001

n = 470

n = 1471

n = 721

n = 314

n = 1035

Rural

213(21.3)

63(24.51)

317(21.6)

171(23.7)

57(18.1)

228(22.0)

Urban

631 (63.0)

169(65.76)

940(63.9)

485(67.3)

225(71.7)

710(68.6)

Semi-urban

157(15.7)

25(9.73)

214(14.5)

65(9.0)

32(10.2)

97(9.4)

Youth

n = 1239

n = 573

n = 1812

n = 730

n = 316

n = 1046

> 25

1046(84.4)

403(70.3)

1449(80.0)

665(91.1)

246(77.9)

911(87.1)

<=25

193(15.6)

170(29.7)

363(20.0)

65(8.9)

70(22.1)

135(12.9)

Education

n = 1235

n = 571

n = 1806

n = 729

n = 315

n = 1044

None

222(18.0)

123(21.5)

345(19.1)

145(19.9)

69(21.9)

214(20.5)

Primary

441(35.7)

158(27.7)

599(33.2)

234(32.1)

79(25.1)

313(30.0)

Secondary

514(41.6)

251(44.0)

765(42.4)

319(43.8)

147(46.7)

466(44.6)

Tertiary

58(4.7)

39(6.8)

97(5.4)

31(4.2)

20(6.3)

51(4.9)

Married

n = 1238

n = 572

n = 1810

n = 730

n = 316

n = 1046

No

266(21.5)

154(26.9)

420(23.2)

143(19.6)

75(23.7)

218(20.8)

Yes

972(78.5)

418(73.1)

1390(76.8)

587(80.4)

241(76.3)

828(79.2)

  1. Compared to the intervention group, the proportion of young people (age ≤ 25 years) was higher in the control group (baseline: intervention group 15.6% (n = 193) vs. control group 29.7% (n = 170) and follow-up: intervention group 8.9% (n = 65) control 22.1% (n = 70), (Table 3)