Table 1 Background characteristics and indicators of possible contamination for women interviewed in adjacent non-DSS and DSS villages and the women interviewed in all DSS villages, MDHS, 1994

Number of women

225

292

2703

 Percent with no schooling

56.4

51.7

54.7

 Percent currently married

96.0

94.2

94.5

 Percent with age <30 years

55.5

41.5*

48.4

 Mean age

30.1

32.7*

31.2

 Mean years of schooling

2.10

2.41

2.23

 Mean parity

4.31

4.24

3.92

 Maternal age heaping (percent of reported ages ending in 0 or 5)

16.9

20.5

19.6

 Percent of women who reported complete dates for all births

90.7

97.9*

98.3

 Heaping of birth intervals (percent of all intervals 12–48 months reported in multiples of 12)

14 (n = 616)

14 (n = 764)

15 (n = 6498)