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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the primary school students and their parents, Meket Woreda, April 2015 (n = 1091)

From: The relationship between school meals with thinness and stunting among primary school students, in Meket Wereda, Ethiopia: comparing schools with feeding and non-feeding program

Variables

SFP schools = 718

Non SFP schools = 373

P-value

Age in years

 10–12

476 (66.3)

174 (46.7)

0.001

 13–14

200 (27.9)

153 (41.0)

 

  > 15

42 (5.8)

46 (12.3)

 

Sex

 Male

364 (50.7)

176 (47.2)

0.30

 Female

354 (49.3)

197 (52.8)

 

Religion

 Orthodox

686 (95.5)

369 (98.9)

0.005

 Muslim

32 (4.5)

4 (1.1)

 

Ethnicity

 Amhara

700 (97.5)

370 (99.2)

0.87

 Agew

18 (2.5)

3 (0.8)

 

Mother’s Education

 Have no formal education

636 (88.6)

343 (92.0)

0.10

 Have formal education

82 (11.4)

30 (8.0)

 

Father’s Education

 Have no formal education

626 (87.2)

241 (64.6)

0.001

 Have formal education

92 (12.8)

132 (35.4)

 

Mother’s occupation

 Housewife

640 (89.1)

266 (71.3)

0.001

 Daily laborer

38 (5.3)

6 (1.6)

 

 Petty trader

40 (5.6)

101 (27.1)

 

Father’s occupation

 Farmer

578 (80.5)

336 (90.1)

0.001

 Petty trader

94 (13.1)

30 (8.0)

 

 Daily laborer

46 (6.4)

7 (1.9)

 

Marital status of their mothers

 Married

638 (88.9)

333 (89.3)

0.96

 Divorced

72 (10.0)

30 (8.0)

 

 Never married

8 (1.1)

10 (2.7)

 

Currently living with

 Both biological parents

582 (81.1)

301 (80.7)

0.65

 Their mothers

84 (11.7)

49 (13.1)

 

 Their grand parents

52 (7.2)

23 (6.2)

 

Residence

 Urban

72 (10.0)

31 (8.3)

0.417

 Rural

646 (90.0)

342 (91.7)

 

Family size

  < 5

250 (34.8)

84 (22.5)

0.001

 5–6

320 (44.6)

215 (57.6)

 

  > 6

148 (20.6)

74 (19.9)

 

Possession of Television

 Yes

90 (12.5)

8 (2.1)

< 0.001

 No

628 (87.5)

365 (97.9)

 

Possession of Radio

 Yes

136 (18.9)

31 (8.3)

< 0.001

 No

582 (81.1)

342 (91.7)

 
  1. Have no formal education = respondents who did not attained any schooling, have formal education = respondent attained primary and above education, Petty trader = were respondents who sell goods on the street.