Disparities in Intimate Partner Violence among Currently Married Women from Food Secure and Insecure Urban Households in South Ethiopia: A Community Based Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics on some variables among currently married women from food secure and insecure households in Arba Minch town, March 2017.

Variables (N=696)		Total	Food security status
			Food insecure	Food secure
		Num(%)	Num (%)	Num (%)
Partner’s educational status	No formal education	126(18.1)	84(19.6)	42(15.7)
	Primary level education	401(57.6)	236(55)	165(61.8)
	Secondary and above education	169(24.3)	109(25.4)	60(22.5)
Women’s occupation	Housewife	308(44.3)	207(48.3)	101(37.8)
	Others	388(55.7)	222(51.7)	166(62.2)
Partner’s occupation	Government employee	310(44.5)	188(43.8)	122(45.7)
		386(55.5)	241(56.2)	145(54.3)
Family size	<5	552(79.3)	325(75.8)	227(85.0)
	5 and above	144(20.7)	104(24.2)	40(15)
Average monthly income	>=1317 ETB	547(78.6)	331(77.2)	216(80.6)
	< 1317 ETB	149(21.4)	98(22.8)	51(19.1)
Partner drinks alcohol	yes	264(37.9)	173(40.3)	91(34.1)
	no	432(62.1)	256(59.7)	176(65.9)
Partner chews khat	Yes	160(23)	108(25.2)	52(19.5)
	No	536(77.0)	321(74.8)	215(80.5)
Mass media exposure	yes	626(89.9)	382(89)	244(91.4)
	no	70(10.1)	47(11.0)	23(8.6)

= employed, merchants, daily laborers, student, = merchants, farmer, carpenters, guards, etc.