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Table 2 Odds ratios from generalized linear models predicting women’s decision-making power from treatment x literacy interaction and covariates, per decision-making item

From: Increasing literate and illiterate women’s met need for contraception via empowerment: a quasi-experiment in rural India

Treatment

Literacy

Large purchases

Small purchases

Earnings

Visits

Having children

Ormanjhi posttest

Literate

1.000 (Ref.)

1.000 (Ref.)

1.000 (Ref.)

1.000 (Ref.)

1.000 (Ref.)

Illiterate

0.809

0.866

1.222

1.125

1.303

Burmu posttest

Literate

0.735

0.485*

0.096***

0.198***

0.506

Illiterate

0.794

0.712

0.140***

0.257***

0.398

Ormanjhi pretest

Literate

1.258

0.915

0.160***

0.275***

0.533

Illiterate

0.808

0.691

0.138***

0.172***

0.228**

Burmu pretest

Literate

1.099

0.784

0.110***

0.257***

0.343

Illiterate

0.743

0.746

0.201**

0.228***

0.539

Age

 

1.013

1.010

0.987

1.000

0.971*

Religion

 

1.326

1.140

1.263

1.153

1.372

Children

 

1.027

1.114*

1.168**

1.030

1.147

Radio

 

0.925

0.965

0.970

0.817***

1.005

TV

 

0.989

0.990

0.931

1.030

0.909

Work

 

1.234*

1.258

1.473**

0.980

0.900

Was visited

 

1.050

1.333

1.143

1.416*

3.440***

Visited HC

 

0.966

0.939

1.303

1.066

1.040

Wald chi-square for treatment x literacy interaction

7.247

9.409

46.243***

62.345***

20.888**

(N)

(1,790)

(1,788)

(1,677)

(1,789)

(1,782)

  1. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.