Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women at Wacha primary hospital, Southwest Ethiopia, 2021 (N = 263)
Variables | Frequency | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Age of women | < 25 | 137 | 52.1% |
25–34 | 97 | 36.9% | |
> 34 | 29 | 11.0% | |
Age of husband | 19–25 | 45 | 17.1% |
26–34 | 134 | 51% | |
35–44 | 84 | 31.9% | |
Marital status | Married | 253 | 96.2% |
Single | 5 | 1.9% | |
Widowed | 2 | 0.8% | |
Divorced | 3 | 1.1% | |
Women religion | Orthodox | 113 | 43% |
Protestant | 125 | 47.5% | |
Muslim | 20 | 7.6% | |
Other * | 5 | 1.9% | |
Residence | Urban | 157 | 59.7% |
Rural | 106 | 40.3% | |
Ethnicity | Kaffa | 201 | 76.4% |
Amhara | 39 | 14.8% | |
Other** | 23 | 8.8% | |
women education | Unable to read and write | 77 | 29.3% |
Able to read and write | 12 | 4.6% | |
primary | 85 | 32.3% | |
secondary | 43 | 16.3% | |
college and above | 46 | 17.5% | |
husband educational | Unable to read and write | 62 | 23.6% |
Read and write | 9 | 3.4% | |
Primary (1–8) | 65 | 24.7% | |
Secondary (9–12) | 75 | 28.5% | |
College and above | 52 | 19.8% | |
Women occupational | Housewife | 140 | 53.2% |
Government employee | 52 | 19.8% | |
Merchant | 34 | 12.9% | |
Daily labor | 37 | 14.1% | |
Head of household | Husband | 193 | 73.4% |
Wife | 25 | 9.5% | |
Both | 45 | 17.1% | |
Family size | < 5 | 169 | 64.3% |
> = 5 | 94 | 35.8% | |
Income | <=1500 | 123 | 46.8% |
> 1500 | 140 | 53.2% | |
Shopping | Wife | 240 | 91.3% |
Husband | 21 | 8% | |
Other | 2 | 0.8% | |
Nutrition awareness | Yes | 158 | 60.1% |
No | 105 | 39.9% | |
Husband support | Yes | 244 | 92.8% |
No | 19 | 7.2% | |
Bank account | Yes | 99 | 37.6% |
No | 164 | 62.4% | |
Mobile | Yes | 145 | 55.1% |
No | 118 | 44.9% | |
Radio | Yes | 156 | 59.3% |
No | 107 | 40.7% | |
Garden | Yes | 184 | 70% |
No | 79 | 30% | |
Fasting | Yes | 84 | 31.9% |
No | 179 | 68.1% | |
Latrine | Yes | 262 | 99.6% |
No | 1 | 0.4% | |
Water source | Tap | 47 | 17.9% |
Spring | 170 | 64.6% | |
Well | 46 | 17.5% | |
Illness | Yes | 6 | 2.3 |
No | 257 | 97.7% | |
Food security status | < 2 | 175 | 66.6% |
≥ 2 | 88 | 33.4% | |
Nutritional status | <  22 | 81 | 30.8% |
≥ 22 | 182 | 69.2% | |