Prevalence of stunting and associated factors among preschool children: A community based comparative cross sectional study in Ethiopia

Table 1 Socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the respondents from food secure and food insecure households of Albuko district, northeast Ethiopia, 2017

Characteristics	Food secure HHs n=527		Food insecure HHs n=512		Total n=1039
Characteristics	Frequency	Percent	Frequency	Percent	Frequency	Percent
Ethnicity
Amhara	505	95.8	507	99.0	1012	97.4
Others^a	22	4.2	5	1.0	27	2.6
Religion
Muslim	493	93.5	497	97.1	990	95.3
Orthodox	34	6.5	15	2.9	49	4.7
Marital Status
Single	32	6.1	26	5.1	58	5.6
Married	460	87.3	479	93.6	939	90.4
Others^b	35	6.6	7	1.4	42	4.0
Under five children
One	464	88.0	410	80.1	874	84.1
Two	58	11.0	102	19.9	160	15.4
Three	5	.9	0	0	5	.5
Mother education
Uneducated	326	61.9	299	58.4	625	60.2
Primary	147	27.9	170	33.2	317	30.5
Secondary and above	54	10.2	43	8.4	97	9.3
Mother occupation
Housewife	464	88.0	479	93.6	943	90.8
Government	17	3.2	6	1.2	23	2.2
Others^c	46	8.7	27	5.3	73	7.0
Money handlers
Husband	369	70.0	395	77.1	764	73.5
Wife	13	2.5	26	5.1	39	3.8
Both	145	27.5	91	17.8	236	22.7
Food sources
Farming	461	87.5	486	94.9	947	91.1
Purchasing	66	12.5	26	5.1	92	8.9
Child sex
Female	305	57.9	273	53.3	578	55.6
Male	222	42.1	239	46.7	461	44.4
Mother age
15-34	365	69.3	244	47.7	609	58.6
35-49	161	30.6	268	52.3	429	41.3
>50	1	.2	0	0	1	.1
Child age
24-35	221	41.9	230	44.9	451	43.4
36-47	191	36.2	167	32.6	358	34.5
48-59	115	21.8	115	22.5	230	22.1
Child birth order
1-2	197	37.4	72	14.1	269	25.9
3-4	289	54.8	386	75.4	675	65.0
>4	41	7.8	54	10.5	95	9.1
HH family size
<4	291	55.2	192	37.5	483	46.5
>4	236	44.8	320	62.5	556	53.5

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