Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of children and mother’s pairs according to all covariates
| Social determinants of health categories | Variables | Categories | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | 95 % CI | |||
| Geographical location | Region | Atlántico | 780 | 24·1 | 21·0, 27·6 |
| Oriental | 414 | 23 | 19·5, 27·0 | ||
| Orinoquía and Amazonía | 54 | 3·6 | 3·3, 3·9 | ||
| Central | 579 | 25·3 | 23·0, 27·9 | ||
| Pacífica | 521 | 23·9 | 20·4, 27·8 | ||
| Social conditions | Self-reported ethnicity head of household | Afro-Colombian | 277 | 9·4 | 6·8, 13·0 |
| Indigenous | 350 | 12·5 | 8·6, 17·8 | ||
| None of the above | 1695 | 78·1 | 74·0, 81·7 | ||
| Living and working conditions | Head of household economic activity | Unemployed | 29 | 1·4 | 1·0, 2·0 |
| Formally employed | 335 | 24·4 | 21·0, 28·1 | ||
| Informally employed | 1504 | 74·2 | 70·6, 77·6 | ||
| Size of the household | 2 to 4 members | 1079 | 48·8 | 46·7, 51·0 | |
| 5 to 6 members | 832 | 34·7 | 32·0, 37·5 | ||
| 7 or more members | 439 | 16·5 | 15·1, 17·9 | ||
| Toilet with sewer connection | Yes | 1711 | 81·1 | 78·5, 83·4 | |
| No | 639 | 18·9 | 16·0, 22·2 | ||
| Wealth index | Below the mean | 1177 | 40 | 35·7, 44·6 | |
| Above the mean | 1173 | 60 | 55·4, 64·3 | ||
| Educational level head of household | Less than complete primary school | 1039 | 43·4 | 37·8, 49·1 | |
| Incomplete secondary school | 836 | 33·6 | 30·3, 37·1 | ||
| Complete secondary and more | 457 | 23 | 19·4, 27·2 | ||
| Educational level mothers | Less than complete primary school | 515 | 20 | 17·6, 22·7 | |
| Incomplete secondary school | 1033 | 41·9 | 39·4, 44·4 | ||
| Incomplete undergraduate | 767 | 37 | 34·2, 39·8 | ||
| Complete undergraduate and more | 28 | 1·2 | 0·9, 1·5 | ||
| Women as the head of the household | No | 543 | 75·5 | 73·0, 77·8 | |
| Yes | 1807 | 24·5 | 22·2, 27·0 | ||
| Number of children under 5 years of age | 1 | 1931 | 83·9 | 82·0, 85·6 | |
| 2 | 385 | 15·2 | 13·6, 17·0 | ||
| 3 or more | 34 | 0·9 | 0·7, 1·3 | ||
| Individual factors | Multiple births | No | 2317 | 99·3 | 99·0, 99·6 |
| Yes | 20 | 0·7 | 0·4, 1·0 | ||
| Mothers’ age at birth | 13 to 17 years | 291 | 13·4 | 11·5, 15·5 | |
| 18 to 34 years | 1772 | 76 | 74·1, 77·8 | ||
| 35 to 49 years | 272 | 10·6 | 9·7, 11·7 | ||
| Pre-term birth | Yes | 288 | 13·3 | 11·9, 14·9 | |
| No | 1997 | 86·7 | 85·1, 88·1 | ||
| Birth spacing | < 24 | 252 | 8·8 | 7·5, 10·3 | |
| >=24 | 1297 | 53·4 | 51·2, 55·6 | ||
| Unique child | 787 | 37·8 | 35·1, 40·6 | ||
| Mothers’ height | < 145 | 143 | 5·4 | 3·6, 8·1 | |
| >= 145 | 2207 | 94·6 | 91·9, 96·4 | ||
Raw sample sizes are reported, and sample weights were used to compute estimates.