Table 1 Child and parents related characteristics among children aged 6–23 months in Damot Sore District, Southern Ethiopia, from March to April 2017
From: Stunting and anemia among children 6–23 months old in Damot Sore district, Southern Ethiopia
Characteristics | Categories | Frequency (N = 485) | Percent (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Sex of the child | Male | 243 | 50.9 |
Female | 234 | 49.1 | |
Age of the mother | 15–24 years | 84 | 17.6 |
25–34 years | 246 | 55.3 | |
35–49 years | 129 | 27.0 | |
Age of the child | 6–11 months | 190 | 39.8 |
12–17 months | 160 | 33.5 | |
18–23 months | 127 | 26.6 | |
Educational status of mother | No formal education | 307 | 64.4 |
Formal education | 170 | 35.6 | |
Educational status of father | No formal education | 238 | 49.9 |
Formal education | 236 | 49.5 | |
Mother’s occupation | Unemployed | 459 | 96.2 |
Government/private employee | 18 | 3.8 | |
Father’s occupation | Unemployed | 454 | 95.2 |
Government/private employee | 19 | 4 | |
Total number of family size within households | Less than or equal to 5 | 219 | 45.9 |
Greater than 5 | 258 | 54.1 | |
Number of under five children within household | More than one child | 240 | 50.3 |
One child | 237 | 49.7 | |
Wealth | Low | 201 | 42.1 |
Middle | 72 | 15.1 | |
High | 204 | 42.8 | |
Introduction time of complementary feeding | Earlier than 6 months | 223 | 46.8 |
Just at 6 months | 254 | 53.2 | |
Breast feeding practice | Poor | 113 | 23.7 |
Good | 331 | 69.4 | |
Never breast feed at all | 33 | 6.9 | |
Source of drinking water | Piped inside compound | 36 | 7.5 |
Public | 351 | 73.6 | |
Protected well/spring | 90 | 18.9 | |
Toilet | No facility/bush/field | 12 | 2.5 |
Have latrine | 465 | 97.5 | |
Utilization of Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) | Not appropriately | 45 | 9.4 |
Appropriately | 404 | 84.7 | |
Never had ITN at all | 28 | 5.9 | |
Having diarrhoea | No | 313 | 65.8 |
Yes | 163 | 34.2 | |
Having Malaria | Yes | 21 | 4.4 |
No | 456 | 95.6 | |
Having low dietary diversity score | Yes | 313 | 65.6 |
No | 164 | 34.4 |