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Table 2 Characteristics of study subjects in intervention and control villages and Uganda Demographic and Health Survey

From: Supportive supervision for volunteers to deliver reproductive health education: a cluster randomized trial

 

Control

Intervention

DHS 2011

N = 113

N = 104

Jinja District

No.

%

No.

%

%

Mean age

27.4

 

28.1

  

School

 Primary

62

54.9 %

51

45.1 %

50 %

 Secondary

33

29.2 %

33

32.4 %

25.1 %

 Higher education

2

1.8 %

2

1.9 %

0.9 %

 None

16

14.2 %

21

20 %

17.6 %

Literacy

 Can’t read

35

31 %

48

40.9 %

16 %

 Partially read

30

26.5 %

18

17.3 %

11.8 %

 Can read

47

41.6 %

36

34.6 %

41.3 %

 Wrong language

1

1 %

2

1.9 %

1 %

 Missing

  

1

1 %

 

Religion

 Muslim

42

37.2 %

37

35.6 %

13 %

 Christian

71

62.8 %

67

64.4 %

87 %

Tribe

 Musoga

80

70.8 %

74

71.1 %

 

 Other

33

29.2 %

30

28.9 %

 

 Mean no. in house

5.8

 

5.4

 

5.1