Research Article
Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Married Women in Rural Nepal
Table 1
Characteristics of participants in a population-based study of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among women from rural Nepal (N=1428).
| Characteristics | n | % |
| Age (years) | | | 15-19 | 27 | 1,9 | 20-29 | 217 | 15.2 | 30-39 | 370 | 25.9 | 40-49 | 368 | 25.8 | ≥ 50 | 446 | 31.2 | Cast/Ethnicity | | | Advantaged high cast | 159 | 11.1 | Adhivasi/Janajati | 1197 | 83.8 | Disadvantaged low cast | 72 | 5.0 | Educational level | | | No formal education | 1213 | 84.9 | Formal education | 215 | 15.1 | Marital status | | | Married | 1313 | 91.9 | Widow | 110 | 7.7 | Divorced | 5 | 0.4 | Age when married (years) | | | ≤15 | 353 | 24.7 | 16-18 | 485 | 34.0 | ≥19 | 590 | 41.3 | How many times married? | | | Once | 1378 | 96.5 | More than once | 50 | 3.5 | Numbers of births | | | 0 | 50 | 3.5 | 1-2 | 409 | 28.6 | 3-4 | 589 | 41.2 | ≥5 | 380 | 26.6 | Husband’s residence (N=1313) | | | Kavre | 1039 | 79.1 | Outside Kavre in Nepal | 161 | 12.3 | Abroad | 113 | 8.6 | Educational status of husband (N=1312) | | | No formal education | 715 | 54.5 | Formal education | 597 | 45.5 | How many times has husband been married? | | | Once | 1266 | 88.7 | More than once | 162 | 11.3 |
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Among women whose husbands were alive and information was available. |