Table 1.
Sociodemographic, health, and maternal characteristics of children aged 36–59 months
| Maternal and household characteristics | n | % | Child characteristics and residence | n | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maternal education | Child’s age | ||||
| No education | 1668 | 40.44 | 3 years | 2122 | 50.80 |
| Primary | 773 | 16.87 | 4 years | 2104 | 49.21 |
| Secondary | 1416 | 33.53 | Childhood anaemia | ||
| Higher | 369 | 9.15 | Severe | 106 | 2.26 |
| Maternal BMI | Moderate | 1397 | 31.90 | ||
| < 18.5 | 359 | 8.45 | Mild | 1076 | 25.64 |
| 18.5–24.9 | 2640 | 61.46 | Not anaemic | 1647 | 40.20 |
| 25.0–29.9 | 813 | 19.77 | Child ever breastfed | ||
| 30 + | 414 | 10.32 | Previously Breastfed | 4117 | 97.35 |
| Household wealth | Never Breastfed | 80 | 1.98 | ||
| Poorest | 867 | 19.19 | Still Breastfeeding | 29 | 0.67 |
| Poorer | 830 | 19.43 | Sex of child | ||
| Middle | 937 | 20.88 | Male | 2104 | 50.71 |
| Richer | 880 | 20.56 | Female | 2122 | 49.21 |
| Richest | 712 | 19.94 | Children’s nutritional health status† | ||
| Place of residence | Stunted | 1481 | 35.43 | ||
| Urban | 1631 | 43.53 | Wasted | 125 | 2.91 |
| Rural | 2595 | 56.47 | Underweight | 849 | 20.11 |
| Total | 4226 | 100.0% | Healthy | 2598 | 61.09 |
Frequency distributions are unweighted, while percentage distributions (%) are weighted to adjust for the complex design of the survey; †-The sub-categories are not mutually exclusive; thus, n (and %) exceeds the total sample size (and 100%)