Factors That Determine the Likelihood of Giving Birth to the First Child within 10 Months after Marriage

Table 3

A Chi-Square test of the association between outcome variable and the predictors.

Variable	Birth length status
	Within 10 months	After 10 months
Geographical location	, value = 0.032
Rural	1,440	2,989
Urban	626	1,470
Ever terminated pregnancy?	, value = 0.024
No	1,675	3,507
Yes	391	952
Use contraceptives?	, value = 0.148
No	1,474	3,258
Yes	592	1,201
Has anaemia?	, value = 0.18
No	1,127	2,352
Yes	939	2,107
Husband lives at home?	, value = 0.15
No	1,637	3,462
Yes	429	997
Partner’s educational level	, value = 0.017
No education	729	1,535
Primary	198	410
Secondary	992	2,274
Higher	147	240
Beating justified if wife goes out without husband’s notice?	, value = 0.072
No	1,366	2,846
Yes	700	1,613
Beating justified if wife neglects child?	, value = 0.002
No	1,194	2,757
Yes	872	1,702
Beating justified if wife argues with husband?	, value = 0.001
No	1,284	2,982
Yes	782	1,477
Beating justified if wife refuses sex?	, value = 0.078
No	1,528	3,388
Yes	538	1,071
Beating justified if wife burns food?	, value = 0.004
No	1,680	3,754
Yes	386	705
Age of respondent at first sex	-value = 1.13, value = 0.259
	2066	4459
Weight of respondent	-value =‐1.05, value = 0.293
	2066	4459
Age of respondent	-value = -13.13, value = 0.001
	2066	4459
Haemoglobin level of respondent	-value = -0.04, value = 0.971
	2066	4459