Table 5 Prevalence of stunting among preschool children from food secure and food insecure households of Albuko district, northeast Ethiopia, 2017
Characteristics | Food secure(n=527) | Food insecure(n=512) | Total (n=1039) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Height-for-age (%) | Number | Height-for-age (%) | Number | Height-for-age (%) | ||||
% < -3SD | % < -2SD | % < -3SD | % < -2SD | % < -3SD | % < -2SD | ||||
Age | |||||||||
 24-35 | 132 | 17.4 | 28.8 | 137 | 32.8 | 51.8 | 269 | 25.3 | 40.5 |
 36-47 | 209 | 16.7 | 36.4 | 183 | 22.4 | 41 | 392 | 19.4 | 38.5 |
 48-59 | 186 | 21.5 | 40.3 | 192 | 22.4 | 38 | 378 | 22 | 39.2 |
Sex | |||||||||
 Male | 222 | 23.9 | 42.8 | 239 | 28.9 | 50.2 | 461 | 26.5 | 46.6 |
 Female | 305 | 14.8 | 30.8 | 273 | 22 | 36.3 | 578 | 18.2 | 33.4 |
Total | 527 | 18.6 | 35.9 | 512 | 25.2 | 42.8 | 1039 | 21.8 | 39.3 |