Table 1

Prevalence of membership in microfinance programmes among the survey participants divided by response and non-response to the IPV question and displayed by age, residence, education, religion, sex of household head and household wealth index

 Respondents to IPV questionsNon-respondents to IPV questionsTotal
NPer centNPer centNPer cent
Age
 15–194622988623134826
 20–2485036132331217433
 25–2986643106837193540
 30–347424091839166139
 35–397014189541159641
 40–444624275638121840
 45–493803668435106435
Residence
 Urban168836248233415134
 Rural279540*404836684537
Education
 No education149445203040352541
 Primary134844192040326842
 Secondary129231205129334530
 Higher327195281985519
Religion
 Muslim403338588934992436
 Non-Muslim4304864141107244
Household head
 Female5052580226130825
 Male395840*572836968837
Wealth index
 Poorest8044797141117543
 Poorer85645113842199543
 Middle84942124640209541
 Richer85541134537220138
 Richest109923183022293022
 Total446539*65313510 99336
  • χ2 Tests test for differences in distribution of microfinance programme membership between the respondents and the non-respondents to IPV questions.

  • Significance for χ2 test is denoted by * (p<0.05, Bonferroni corrected for 22 comparisons in each column).

  • IPV, intimate partner violence.