Table 2 Village, household and eligible women characteristics (percentages in category) at baseline, by intervention assignment
From: An experiment of health services and additional microcredit in 128 villages of Bangladesh
Level and characteristic | Intervention group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All groups | Control, i.e., none | Microcredit only | Health services only | Both interventions | |
Village level (n = 64) |  |  |  |  |  |
Market in village | 50 | 38 | 50 | 53 | 59 |
Clinic within 2 miles | 60 | 56 | 63 | 75 | 53 |
Hospital within 5 miles | 44 | 34 | 41 | 50 | 53 |
Household level (n = 3998) |  |  |  |  |  |
Poor (bottom three quintiles) | 60 | 64 | 53 | 58 | 64 |
Not food deficit during the year | 64 | 66 | 60 | 67 | 66 |
Electricity in the home | 62 | 66 | 63 | 59 | 60 |
Own land | 45 | 47 | 38 | 47 | 49 |
Improved water source | 57 | 63 | 54 | 59 | 52 |
Own cow and/or goat | 47 | 48 | 44 | 46 | 51 |
Woman level (n = 3933) |  |  |  |  |  |
Currently works for pay | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 |
No ANC for last birth | 18 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 21 |
Want no more births | 42 | 44 | 45 | 43 | 39 |
Ever attended school * | 54 | 47 | 45 | 60 | 60 |
Age (mean) | 35.5 | 36.4 | 35.5 | 34.6 | 35.6 |
Number of pregnancies (mean) | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.1 |