Girl-level factors | |
Age of girls (years) | 13.8±1.9 |
Ethnicity (%) | |
Dagomba | 355 (61.0) |
Konkomba | 227 (39.0) |
Religion (%) | |
Muslim | 355 (61.0) |
Christian | 217 (37.0) |
Africa traditional | 10 (1.7) |
Dietary Diversity Score | 5.7±1.1 |
Mean frequency of fruits and vegetable consumption over the last 30 days | 15.9±4.9 |
Mean frequency of animal source consumption over the last 30 days | 9.8±3.5 |
Life satisfaction (%) | |
Low | 213 (36.6) |
High | 369 (63.4) |
Self-esteem score | 33.6±3.3 |
Self-efficacy score | 29.8±5.5 |
Health complains score | −0.9±2.9 |
Menarche status (%) | |
Premenarche | 300 (51.5) |
Postmenarche | 282 (48.5) |
Mean score pubertal development | 2.1±0.7 |
School attendance (log transformed) | 5.1±0.3 |
Maternal-level factors | |
Age of mother (%) | |
30–49 years | 527 (90.5) |
50+ years | 55 (9.5) |
Mother is literate (%) | 46 (7.9) |
Occupation of the mother (%) | |
None | 38 (6.5) |
Farmer | 430 (73.9) |
Other | 114 (19.6) |
Parity | 6.5±2.2 |
Household-level factors | |
Household size | 12.1±5.3 |
Female to male (sex) ratio | 1.6±1.5 |
Dependency ratio | 1.1±0.8 |
Literacy ratio | 0.6±0.3 |
Wealth index | 49.0±11.5 |