Table 3 Distribution of consanguineous unions, total marriages, and IC-F in various socio-demographic variables of subjects
Variable | Consanguineous unions | Total marriages | Bivariate logistic regression OR | IC-F | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | % | No. | % | |||
Education* | ||||||
Illiterate | 564 | 65.6 | 860 | 39.6 | 2.33* | 0.0396 |
Religious education/Madarsa | 399 | 63.4 | 629 | 28.9 | 2.12* | 0.0383 |
Literate (all) | 308 | 45.0 | 685 | 31.5 | 1.00 | 0.0278 |
Literacy level (years of schooling) | ||||||
Up to 8 years | 146 | 47.4 | 308 | 14.2 | 0.67 | 0.0301 |
9–12 years | 128 | 44.6 | 287 | 13.2 | 0.89 | 0.0265 |
>12 years | 34 | 37.8 | 90 | 4.1 | 1.00 | 0.0236 |
Subjects’ age group (years) | ||||||
Up to 25 | 342 | 54.7 | 625 | 28.8 | 1.00 | 0.0328 |
26–50 | 781 | 59.4 | 1315 | 60.5 | 0.75* | 0.0363 |
>50 | 148 | 63.3 | 234 | 10.8 | 0.83 | 0.0379 |
Marriage arrangement (n = 2117)* | ||||||
Arranged marriage | 736 | 50.2 | 1466 | 69.2 | 1.00 | 0.0306 |
Self-arranged | 27 | 79.4 | 34 | 1.6 | 3.83* | 0.0455 |
Reciprocal (Watta-Satta) | 470 | 76.2 | 617 | 29.2 | 3.17* | 0.0466 |
Family/household type (n = 2108) | ||||||
Nuclear | 695 | 60.2 | 1154 | 54.7 | 1.12 | 0.0367 |
Grandparent-and-one-couple | 292 | 57.5 | 508 | 24.1 | 1.00 | 0.0347 |
Extended family | 244 | 54.7 | 446 | 21.2 | 0.89 | 0.0337 |
Occupation of husband* | ||||||
Unskilled manual | 423 | 67.1 | 632 | 29.1 | 1.94* | 0.0406 |
Agriculture/farming | 288 | 59.9 | 481 | 22.1 | 1.45* | 0.0362 |
Office job/services | 239 | 51.7 | 462 | 21.3 | 1.04 | 0.0313 |
Business/sales | 217 | 50.7 | 428 | 19.7 | 1.00 | 0.0315 |
Skilled manual | 68 | 63.0 | 108 | 5.0 | 1.79* | 0.0378 |
Unemployed | 12 | 70.6 | 17 | 0.8 | – | 0.0368 |
Late/deceased | 24 | 52.2 | 46 | 2.1 | – | 0.0313 |
Parental marriage type (n = 1998)* | ||||||
Consanguineous | 725 | 74.7 | 970 | 48.5 | 4.05* | 0.0453 |
Non-consanguineous | 434 | 42.2 | 1028 | 51.5 | 1.00 | 0.0256 |