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Table 3 Non- weighted cross-tabulation of maternal IPV by EBF practice

From: Intimate partner violence and exclusive breastfeeding of infants: analysis of the 2013 Nigeria demographic and health survey

  Overall Exclusive Breastfeeding  
N % No % Yes % Chi-square P-value Mean SD
Independent Variables
 Emotional IPV        2.48 0.12   
  No 2057 83.5 757 81.9 1300 84.4     
  Yes 408 16.6 167 18.1 241 15.6     
 Physical IPV        4.11 0.04   
  No 2176 88.3 800 86.6 1376 89.3     
  Yes 289 11.7 124 13.4 165 10.7     
 Sexual IPV        0.02 0.89   
  No 2351 95.4 882 95.5 1469 95.3     
  Yes 114 4.6 42 4.6 72 4.7     
 Any IPV        0.06 0.80   
  No 1946 79.0 727 78.7 1219 79.1     
  Yes 519 21.1 197 21.3 322 20.9     
 Frequency score of IPV      †2.45 0.01 0.69 2.0
  1. Total observation = 2465, Weight refers to sampling weights, SD= Standard deviation
  2. † t-test statistics