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Table 1 Socio demographic and economic characteristics of respondents

From: Prevalence of wasting and associated factors among children aged 2–5 years, southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study

Variables

Categories

Wasting

Frequency

Percentage

Yes

No

Sex of house hold head

Male

125

223

348

89.23%

Female

14

25

42

10.77%

What did you gave?

Single

21

16

37

9.49%

Married

227

126

353

90.51%

Age of the mother

15–19 years

2

3

5

1.28%

20–24 years

13

26

39

10.00%

25–29 years

54

98

152

38.97%

30–34 years

38

64

102

26.15%

35–40 years

35

57

92

23.59%

Paternal occupational status

Farmer

47

76

123

33.24%

Government employee

22

50

72

19.46%

Merchant

72

76

121

32.70%

Private worker

5

8

13

3.51%

Daily laborer

12

26

41

11.09%

Livestock

Present

46

82

128

32.82%

Absent

96

166

262

67.18%