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

Table 5

Logistic regression model for experience of physical violence by women (20–24) during the last 12 months in India, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu, NFHS-3 2006-07.

	India		Bihar		Tamil Nadu
	OR	CI at 90%	OR	CI at 90%	OR	CI at 90%
Women empowerment
Low	1.360	1.180–1.567	1.411	(0.766–2.598)	0.851	(0.436–1.662)
Medium	1.216	1.062–1.392	1.388	(0.848–2.27)	2.387	(1.194–4.77)
High (reference)
Age at marriage
Before 15	1.384	1.198–1.599	3.279	(1.786–6.019)	1.134	(0.571–2.251)
15–17	1.349	1.175–1.549	1.101	(0.649–1.869)	1.078	(0.55–2.111)
After 18 (reference)	= 0.182		= 0.362		= 0.316

Significant at 90 percent; , .
Model is controlled for all the background characteristics considered in the bivariate table.