The Nexus between Child Marriage and Women Empowerment with Physical Violence in Two Culturally Distinct States of India

Table 1

Frequency distribution of key variables (unweighted).

Characteristics	India	Bihar	Tamil Nadu
Age at marriage
Married before the age of 15	26.9	39.1	14.9
Married in the age from 15 to 17	27.4	29.5	23.7
Married after the age of 18	45.6	31.4	61.4
Level of women empowerment
Low		43.6	19.0
Medium		31.7	40.4
High		24.9	40.6
% of women who experienced physical violence in the last 12 months	21.7	46.6	30.6
Total ()	10514	373	523

Women empowerment index was calculated using PCA; all the scores were divided into three equal parts; therefore, the cell is left blank.