Pregnancy risk during menstrual cycle: misconceptions among urban men in India

Table 3 Test of equality of group means for slum

	Predictors	Mean	S.D	Mean	S.D	p Value
	Predictors	(Group 1)	(Group 1)	(Group 2)	(Group 2)	p Value
Caste	SC / ST	0.32	0.47	0.22	0.41	0.01
	OBC	0.42	0.49	0.44	0.49	0.43
	General	0.26	0.44	0.34	0.47	0.01
Religion	Hindu	0.81	0.38	0.59	0.49	0.01
Religion	Non Hindu	0.19	0.38	0.41	0.48	0.01
Education	No Education	0.10	0.17	0.07	0.11	0.02
	Primary Education	0.12	0.39	0.11	0.37	0.32
	Secondary Education	0.64	0.49	0.62	0.48	0.98
	Higher Education	0.14	0.37	0.20	0.40	0.04
Age	Age Below 30 Yrs	0.26	0.44	0.22	0.41	0.06
	Age 30 to 34 Yrs	0.18	0.39	0.19	0.39	0.65
	Age 35 to 39 Yrs	0.19	0.40	0.19	0.39	0.75
	Age 40 to 44 Yrs	0.16	0.37	0.18	0.38	0.23
	Age Above 44 Yrs	0.20	0.40	0.22	0.41	0.43
Media Exposure	Exposed to Media	0.84	0.35	0.85	0.31	0.45
Media Exposure	Not Exposed to Media	0.16	0.37	0.15	0.35	0.45
Society Encourages MFPM	Society Encourages MFP Method	0.53	0.49	0.70	0.45	0.00
	Doesn’t Encourage MFP Method	0.13	0.33	0.07	0.25	0.00
	Don’t Know about society	0.34	0.47	0.23	0.42	0.00
Wealth Status	Lower Wealth	0.22	0.41	0.17	0.38	0.04
	Middle Wealth	0.65	0.47	0.67	0.47	0.48
	Upper Wealth	0.13	0.33	0.15	0.36	0.13
Discussed FP	Discussed FP with Wife	0.75	0.41	0.94	0.27	0.00
Discussed FP	Don’t Discuss FP with Wife	0.25	0.43	0.06	0.24	0.00

Group 1 includes the respondents who do not have the correct knowledge and group 2 includes the respondents who have the accurate information about the fertile window of the menstrual cycle

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