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Table 1 Demographics

From: Addressing child undernutrition in Tanzania with the ASTUTE program

Description

Baseline (percent)

Endline (percent)

Combined total

Female caregivers surveyed

5000

4996

9996

Setting

  Rural

4301 (86.02)

4296 (85.99)

8,597 (86.00)

  Urban

699 (13.98)

700 (14.01)

1,399 (14.00)

Religion

  Christians

4166 (83.32)

4,166(83.32)

  Muslim

541 (10.82)

541 (10.82)

  Other religion

102 (2.04)

102 (2.04)

  No religion

191 (3.82)

191 (3.82)

Marital Status

  Single—never married

293 (5.86)

211 (4.22)

504 (5.04)

  Married—monogamous

3549 (70.98)

3850 (77.06)

7399 (74.02)

  Married – polygamous

291 (5.82)

490 (9.81)

781 (7.81)

  Informal union

425 (8.50)

75 (1.50)

500 (5.00)

  Single – Previously married

442 (8.84)

365 (7.3)

807 (8.07)

Occupation

  Crop farming

3576 (71.52)

3498 (70.02)

7074 (70.77)

  Self-employed

386 (7.72)

699 (13.99)

1085 (10.85)

  Housewife/ Househusband

755 (15.10)

605 (12.11)

1360 (13.61)

  Other

278 (6.7)

194 (3.88)

472 (4.72)

Can read

  Yes

3684 (73.68)

3903 (78.17)

7587 (75.92)

  No

1285 (25.70)

1090 (21.83)

2375 (23.77)

Education

  Less than primary school

1546 (30.92)

1481 (29.65)

3027 (30.29)

  Completed primary school

2808 (56.16)

2840 (56.86)

5648 (56.51)

  Some secondary education or more

646 (12.92)

674 (13.49)

1320 (13.21)

  Mean wealtha

0.314 (SD 0.185)

0.364 (SD 0.176)

0.338 (SD 0.182)

  Mean age of child (0–23 months) in months

9.38 (SD 6.60)

9.68 (SD6.70)

9.51 (SD 6.64)

  Male heads of household surveyed

1,114

3,084

4,198

Education

  Less than primary school

215 (18.79)

  Completed primary school

751 (65.65)

  Some secondary education or more

178 (15.56)

  1. astatistically significant
  2. Note: The wealth variable was created by combining two other indices: access to services (access to water and safe sanitation) and ownership of eight specific consumer durables (TV, radio, automobile, etcetera). It is an average of these two and assumes they are equal. The result is a value between 0 and 1, a score closer to 1 indicating a higher socio-economic status [17]