Table 1 Selected sociodemographic characteristics of women used in study
DHS2015 | DHS2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Women (N = 8292) | Men (N = 3470) | Women (N = 8574) | Men (N = 3590) | |
Respondent's age | ||||
15–19 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
20–29 | 32.6 | 20.9 | 26.1 | 14.1 |
30–39 | 40.7 | 37.3 | 43.2 | 39.7 |
40–49 | 25.4 | 23.7 | 29.8 | 27.6 |
50 and above | 17.9 | 18.5 | ||
Partner's age | ||||
15–19 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 |
20–29 | 21.8 | 33.2 | 15.7 | 24.2 |
30–39 | 40.8 | 39.2 | 42.2 | 42.7 |
40–49 | 24.4 | 18.8 | 28.2 | 24.0 |
50–59 | 12.9 | 7.8 | 13.7 | 8.2 |
Respondent's education | ||||
No education | 17.3 | 16.3 | 13.8 | 14.3 |
Primary | 69.1 | 70.7 | 65.4 | 69.0 |
Secondary | 10.5 | 9.1 | 15.9 | 11.6 |
Higher | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 5.0 |
Partner's education | ||||
No education | 18.3 | 13.8 | ||
Primary | 67.3 | 66.7 | ||
Secondary | 10.4 | 13.5 | ||
Higher | 4.0 | 5.9 | ||
Respondent's literacy | ||||
Cannot read at all | 24.1 | 21.1 | 19.9 | 19.9 |
Able to read only parts of sentence | 8.5 | 8.2 | 10.2 | 9.8 |
Able to read whole sentence | 67.4 | 70.7 | 69.9 | 70.3 |
Respondent 's province | ||||
Kigali city | 12.3 | 12.3 | 11.8 | 11.3 |
South | 25.2 | 25.0 | 23.8 | 24.3 |
West | 22.6 | 23.1 | 22.8 | 23.2 |
North | 15.8 | 16.3 | 16.3 | 16.6 |
East | 24.2 | 23.3 | 25.3 | 24.6 |
Respondent's residence | ||||
Urban | 22.7 | 21.9 | 21.6 | 20.3 |
Rural | 77.3 | 78.1 | 78.4 | 79.7 |
Respondent's wealth index | ||||
Poorest | 21.4 | 17.1 | 22.4 | 19.5 |
Poorer | 20.2 | 20.1 | 19.2 | 19.4 |
Middle | 19.1 | 20.5 | 19.0 | 21.2 |
Richer | 18.1 | 20.7 | 19.7 | 20.6 |
Richest | 21.2 | 21.5 | 19.7 | 19.3 |
Number of household members | ||||
1–3 | 23.6 | 24.4 | 22.5 | 22.4 |
4–5 | 40.9 | 38.7 | 43.3 | 41.8 |
6 and above | 35.5 | 36.9 | 34.2 | 35.7 |
Number of children 5 and under in household | ||||
None | 29.1 | 28.7 | ||
1 or 2 | 66.4 | 67.6 | ||
3 or 4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | ||
5 and above | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||