Table 1 Individual, parental, household, healthcare and community-level characteristics of living children aged between 6 and 23 months, Ethiopia, 2016
Characteristics | n | % |
|---|---|---|
Child characteristics | ||
Sex of child | ||
Male | 1396 | 46.97 |
Female | 1576 | 53.03 |
Age of child (months) | ||
6–11 | 1044 | 35.14 |
12–17 | 1091 | 36.73 |
19–23 | 836 | 28.13 |
Birth order | ||
Firstborn | 547 | 18.4 |
Second to fourth | 1284 | 43.2 |
Five or more | 1141 | 38.4 |
Diarrheaa | ||
No | 2394 | 80.54 |
Yes | 573 | 19.28 |
Cough | ||
No | 2267 | 76.29 |
Yes | 705 | 23.71 |
Parental characteristics | ||
Mother’s age (years) | ||
15–24 | 805 | 27.08 |
25–34 | 1553 | 52.25 |
35–49 | 614 | 20.67 |
Mother’s education | ||
No education | 1844 | 62.02 |
Primary education | 904 | 30.40 |
Secondary and higher | 225 | 7.58 |
Mother’s occupation | ||
Not working | 1707 | 57.43 |
Non agricultural works | 590 | 19.84 |
Agricultural works | 642 | 21.60 |
Others | 33 | 1.13 |
Mother’s literacy | ||
Cannot read at all | 2203 | 74.11 |
Able to read only parts of sentence | 356 | 11.98 |
Able to read whole sentence | 413 | 13.91 |
Mother’s marital status | ||
Currently married | 2838 | 95.49 |
Formerly married | 134 | 4.51 |
Reads newspaper or magazine | ||
Not at all | 2777 | 93.45 |
Less than once a week | 142 | 4.78 |
At least once a week | 53 | 1.77 |
Listen to radio | ||
Not at all | 2177 | 73.25 |
Less than once a week | 387 | 13.02 |
At least once a week | 408 | 13.73 |
Watches television | ||
Not at all | 2446 | 82.27 |
Less than once a week | 258 | 8.70 |
At least once a week | 268 | 9.03 |
Father’s education | ||
No education | 1254 | 42.18 |
Primary | 1177 | 39.62 |
Secondary and higher | 385 | 12.96 |
Don’t know and missing | 136 | 5.26 |
Father’s occupation | ||
Not working | 219 | 7.38 |
Non agricultural works | 678 | 22.82 |
Agricultural works | 1827 | 61.47 |
Others and missing | 248 | 8.33 |
House hold characteristics | ||
Source of drinking water | ||
Improved | 1696 | 57.05 |
Un improved | 1276 | 42.95 |
Household wealth index | ||
Poorest | ||
Poorer | 627 | 21.09 |
Middle | 666 | 22.41 |
Richer | 544 | 18.31 |
Richest | 434 | 14.61 |
Healthcare characteristics | ||
Preceding birth interval | ||
No preceding birth | 549 | 18.5 |
< 24 months | 451 | 15.2 |
≥ 24 months | 1972 | 66.3 |
Antenatal care visit | ||
None | 1002 | 33.71 |
1–3 times | 870 | 29.28 |
4 and above | 987 | 33.21 |
I don’t know and missing | 113 | 3.80 |
Mode of delivery | ||
Non-Cesarean section | 2897 | 97.48 |
Cesarean section | 75 | 2.52 |
Place of delivery | ||
Home | 1845 | 62.05 |
Health facility | 1068 | 35.95 |
Other | 59 | 2.00 |
Post-natal check-up within 2 months | ||
No | 2628 | 88.43 |
Yes | 232 | 7.79 |
I don’t know and missing | 112 | 3.78 |
Community-level factors | ||
Residence | ||
Urban | 346 | 11.65 |
Rural | 2626 | 88.35 |
Minimum dietary diversity | ||
Adequate minimum dietary diversity | 443 | 14.9 |
Inadequate minimum dietary diversity | 2529 | 85.1 |
Total | 2972 | |