As we can observe, the education level of spouses in extended households is much lower than in nuclear households.
In Bangladesh our results are consistent with a scenario wherein investments in improving the education level of spouses (in addition to investments in maternal education) have large impacts on child nutrition outcomes across the distribution of HAZ scores.
Besides, the education level of spouse's also has a positive contribution to the adoption of crop diversification.
In our study, there was an inverse association between education level of spouse with sexual/psychological violence.
A study in Tanzania found that low level of spouse education was a risk factor for maternal mortality [ 10].
Data was collected on socio-demographic variables such as age, level of education, marital status, employment status, age of spouse, occupation of spouse and social habits (drinking alcohol or smoking) as well as the education level of spouse.
Factors associated with lower prevalence of physical violence were education level of respondent (adjusted relative risk (ARR) 0.50, confidence limits (95%CI) 0.31-0.82), education level of spouse (ARR 0.5, 95%CI 0.31-0.82, p = 007) and use of antiretroviral therapy (ARR 2.56, 95%CI 0.98-7.32, p-value = 0.054).
Similarity in the levels of the spouses' schooling at the time of marriage also stabilizes the match, as do higher age at marriage, duration, children, and marital assets like property.
She suggests "increasing the amount of physical contact in your relationship by a set amount each week" within the comfort level of the spouses' personalities, backgrounds and openness to nonsexual touch.
