Table 1 Comparison of participants’ characteristics between endline and post-endline survey, according to MSS and GSM voucher programmes
Characteristics | MSS – single purpose voucher | GSM – multipurpose voucher | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Endline n = 390 | Post-endline n = 338 | p-value | Endline n = 409 | Post-endline n = 324 | p-value | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
Women age | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||||
Mean (SD) | 31.2 | (5.4) | 32.6 | (5.4) | 29.3 | (± 5.0) | 32.0 | (± 5.1) | ||
Age of women at marriage | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||||
Mean (SD) | 19.7 | (3.2) | 20.2 | (3.0) | 21.1 | (± 3.5) | 19.6 | (± 2.4) | ||
Women education | < 0.001 | 0.03 | ||||||||
None/no formal | 71 | 18.2 | 72 | 21.6 | 138 | 33.7 | 97 | 30.5 | ||
Completed primary/some secondary | 184 | 47.2 | 110 | 32.9 | 185 | 45.2 | 127 | 39.9 | ||
Completed secondary or above | 135 | 34.6 | 152 | 45.5 | 86 | 21.0 | 94 | 29.6 | ||
Number of children | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||||
Mean (SD) | 2.9 | (1.4) | 3.1 | (4.1) | 2.6 | (± 1.4) | 3.1 | (± 1.5) | ||
Women’s employment | 0.003 | 0.943 | ||||||||
Housewife | 378 | 96.9 | 311 | 92.0 | 396 | 96.8 | 314 | 96.9 | ||
Working women | 12 | 3.1 | 27 | 8.0 | 13 | 3.2 | 10 | 3.1 | ||
Household members | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||||
Mean (SD) | 5.2 | (± 1.6) | 6.2 | (± 2.1) | 6.6 | (± 2.6) | 5.9 | (± 2.1) | ||
Wealth quintile | 0.753 | < 0.001 | ||||||||
Poorest | 171 | 21.6 | 133 | 20.1 | 39 | 9.7 | 65 | 20.1 | ||
Poor | 152 | 19.2 | 133 | 20.1 | 35 | 8.7 | 65 | 20.1 | ||
Medium | 156 | 19.7 | 132 | 19.9 | 75 | 18.6 | 65 | 20.1 | ||
Wealthy | 174 | 22.0 | 134 | 20.2 | 125 | 31.0 | 66 | 20.4 | ||
Wealthiest | 139 | 17.6 | 130 | 19.6 | 129 | 32.0 | 63 | 19.4 | ||