Characteristics of friendship networks for women (female friends) and their husbands (male friends).

Women are more likely to appoint affines as their friends (e.g. their husband's brother's wives (29.78%) and their husband's mother (16.24%)). Husbands appoint affines (spouse's brothers (37.10%)), friends (23.86%) and kin (e.g. their brothers (19.30%)). Women's friends are more likely to be in the same compound, while men's friends are more likely to be in the same village but outside the compound. In more than 70% of cases, women and men talk to their friends every day.