Baseline characteristics | Violence | No violence | P value |
n=457 | n=213 325 | ||
Sex of victim, n (%) | |||
Male | 346 (75.71) | 107 553 (50.42) | 0.000 |
Female | 111 (24.29) | 105 772 (49.58) | |
Marital status n (%) | |||
Married | 27 (5.91) | 18 241 (8.55) | 0.138 |
Never married | 359 (78.56) | 168 222 (78.86) | |
Divorced | 1 (0.22) | 262 (0.12) | |
Widowed | 0 (0.00) | 98 (0.05) | |
Separated | 1 (0.22) | 158 (0.07) | |
Not applicable | 69 (15.10) | 26 344 (12.35) | |
Education n (%) | |||
No education | 23 (5.03) | 10 996 (5.15) | 0.22 |
Primary | 201 (43.98) | 81 827 (38.36) | |
Secondary | 208 (45.51) | 108 044 (50.65) | |
A levels | 25 (5.47) | 12 067 (5.66) | |
College | 0 (0.00) | 390 (0.18) | |
Advanced/professional degree | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.00) | |
Occupation n* (%) | |||
Agriculture | 10 (2.19) | 3320 (1.56) | 0.232 |
Business | 10 (2.19) | 2916 (1.37) | |
Skilled labour (professional) | 30 (6.56) | 11 453 (5.37) | |
Unskilled/domestic (unskilled) | 12 (2.63) | 4077 (1.91) | |
Rickshaw/bus (transport worker) | 5 (1.09) | 1198 (0.56) | |
Students | 327 (71.55) | 157 305 (73.80) | |
Retired/unemployed/housewife | 62 (13.57) | 31 370 (14.72) | |
Not applicable (others) | 1 (0.22) | 1512 (0.71) | |
Socioeconomic Index n (%) | |||
Lowest | 87 (19.04) | 32 482 (15.23) | 0.041 |
Low | 88 (19.26) | 41 936 (19.66) | |
Middle | 91 (19.91) | 46 385 (21.74) | |
High | 114 (24.95) | 47 885 (22.45) | |
Highest | 77 (16.85) | 44 637 (20.92) | |
District n (%) | |||
Chandpur | 345 (75.49) | 114 591 (53.72) | 0.000 |
Comilla | 23 (5.03) | 5057 (2.37) | |
Sirajganj | 12 (2.63) | 16 777 (7.86) | |
Sherpur | 27 (5.91) | 38 528 (18.06) | |
Narshindi | 50 (10.94) | 38 372 (17.99) | |
Place of injury n† (%) | |||
Home | 198 (43.33) | 5899 (40.68) | 0.000 |
School | 46 (10.07) | 894 (6.17) | |
Other playground | 46 (10.07) | 1206 (8.32) | |
Roads/highway/railway station | 99 (21.66) | 3304 (22.78) | |
Agricultural field | 31 (6.78) | 1389 (9.58) | |
Workplace | 15 (3.28) | 547 (3.77) | |
Others | 22 (4.81) | 1262 (8.70) |
*One hundred and seventy-four observations were missing for occupation. These were left in the data set as it accounted for only 0.08% of the total observations.
†This category was based only on the population reporting violence (N = 457) under the ‘violence’ column, and other types of injury (N = 14 501) under the ‘no-violence’ column.