Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of participants in 2001 and 2005
From: Community health education improves child health care in Rural Western China
Characteristics | 2001 | 2005 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention | Control | T / X 2 | P-value | Intervention | Control | T / X 2 | P-value | |
(n = 2673) | (n = 9031) | (n = 2693) | (n = 8425) | |||||
Age of child in months,mean (SD) | 18.6 (9.2) | 18.5 (9.9) | 0.466 | 0.641 | 15.8 (9.5) | 17.9 (9.9) | 9.675 | 0.001 |
Male sex, n (%) | 1564 (58.5) | 5170 (57.2) | 1.141 | 0.285 | 1579 (58.6) | 4858 (57.7) | 0.790 | 0.374 |
Place of birth, in hospital, n (%) | 1057(39.5) | 4944 (54.7) | 190.7 | 0.0001 | 2452 (91.1) | 6914 (82.1) | 124.1 | 0.0001 |
Age of mother in years, mean (SD) | 27.0 (3.9) | 26.6 (4.0) | 4.567 | 0.001 | 27.1 (4.4) | 27.2 (4.9) | 0.944 | 0.345 |
Mother’s education in years, mean (SD) | 5.8 (3.2) | 6.0 (3.2) | 2.838 | 0.004 | 6.9 (2.9) | 6.5 (3.1) | 5.919 | 0.001 |
Household wealth index, (SD) | −0.01 (0.05) | −0.00 (0.06) | 7.84 | 0.001 | 0.02 (0.03) | 0.01 (0.06) | 8.322 | 0.001 |
Size of family, n (SD) | 4.3 (1.5) | 4.7 (1.6) | 11.51 | 0.001 | 4.6 (1.6) | 4.8 (1.6) | 5.646 | 0.001 |
Drinking Water Source,, n (%) | 728 (27.2) | 2365 (26.2) | 1.164 | 0.281 | 1023 (38.0) | 3367 (40.0) | 3.338 | 0.068 |