Community mobilisation to prevent violence against women and girls in eastern India through participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by accredited social health activists: a before-and-after pilot study

Table 2 Participants’ characteristics

	BASELINE		ENDLINE		P ¹
	n	%	n	%	P ¹
Tribe or Caste
Adivasi (Scheduled Tribe)	445	65.5	574	63.5
Scheduled Caste	41	6.0	43	5.0
Other Backward Class	192	28.3	269	31.2
None of the above	1	0.1	2	0.2	0.522
Literacy
Cannot read or with difficulty	452	66.6	458	53.2
Can read	227	33.4	403	46.8	< 0.001
Has a regular source of income³
Yes	292	43.0	295	34.3
No	387	57.0	566	65.7	< 0.001
Occupation
Salaried job	16	2.4	29	3.4
Farming	205	30.2	162	18.8
Labourer	203	29.9	353	41.0
Housewife	248	36.5	283	32.9
Student	7	1.0	16	1.9
Small business	0	0.0	18	2.1	< 0.001
Card ownership
Above Poverty Line (APL)	19	2.8	1	0.1
Antyodaya	219	32.2	202	23.5
Below Poverty Line (BPL)	276	40.6	603	70.0
None of the above	165	24.3	55	6.4	< 0.001
Socio-economically disadvantaged⁴
Yes	155	22.8	129	15.0
No	524	77.2	732	85.0	< 0.001
Family type
Nuclear	440	64.0	553	64.2
Joint	237	34.9	305	35.4
Extended	2	0.3	3	0.3	0.960
Marital status
Married	532	78.3	670	77.8
Unmarried	44	6.5	52	6.0
Widow	103	15.2	135	15.7
Divorced/separated	0	0	4	0.5	0.341
Total respondents	679	100	861	100

¹P values for differences in participants’ characteristics between baseline and endline derived from chi-squared tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables
³ Defined as daily wage rather than seasonal or other types of intermittent wage
⁴ Defined as being Adivasi and not having a bank account

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