Economic empowerment and intimate partner violence: a secondary data analysis of the cross-sectional Demographic Health Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

Table 2 Sample characteristics

	All		Urban–rural		Woman age
	N	Total (%)	Urban (%)	Rural (%)	15–24 (%)	25–34 (%)	35–49 (%)
Household wealth index
Middle	13,679	20	9	23	20	19	20
Poorer	29,152	41	5	55	47	39	39
Richer	25,887	39	85	22	33	42	41
Woman's secondary education
Primary	28,394	41	32	44	42	40	41
None	22,756	34	17	40	33	31	38
Secondary	15,359	22	41	15	25	24	18
Higher	2201	3	9	1	1	4	4
Woman currently working
No	25,922	37	39	36	49	35	29
Yes	42,587	63	61	64	51	65	71
Man's age
15–34	30,901	42	40	43	84	43	2
35–49	31,898	48	51	47	15	54	70
50 +	5919	10	9	10	1	3	28
Man's secondary education
Primary	27,027	39	26	44	38	38	41
None	16,763	24	11	29	25	23	26
Secondary	20,311	29	46	23	33	31	24
Higher	4612	7	17	3	4	8	8
Man currently working
No	5811	8	5	10	9	7	9
Yes	62,835	92	95	90	91	93	91
Does she have any say in how her earnings are spent?
Yes	26,255	40	52	35	29	42	46
No	4575	7	5	7	6	7	7
No income of her own	37,888	54	43	58	65	51	47
Who earns more
Same	4402	6	6	6	4	7	8
She	2759	4	7	3	2	4	6
He	61,477	89	87	90	94	89	86
Who has the higher level of education
He	19,882	29	32	28	28	29	31
Same	41,718	61	56	62	62	60	60
She	7118	10	12	9	10	11	9
Who is currently working
Both	42,922	63	60	64	52	65	70
He	22,877	33	37	31	43	31	25
She	2919	4	3	5	4	4	5
Income in cash
Not paid in cash	15,452	32	12	39	38	30	30
Paid in cash	31,024	68	88	61	62	70	70
Woman age
15–24	19,417	27	24	29
25–34	30,974	43	47	42
35–49	18,327	30	29	30
Urban–rural
Urban	19,064	28			24	30	27
Rural	49,654	72			76	70	73

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