Table 1.
Descriptive analysis of respondents’ characteristics by migration status: women aged 15–49 years (n 6171), Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014
| Characteristic | Rural non-migrants (n 2915; 47·2 %) |
Rural-to-urban migrants (n 2269; 36·8 %) |
Urban non-migrants (n 987; 16·0 %) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n * | % | n * | % | n * | % | |
| BMI status | ||||||
| Healthy weight (18·5–24·99 kg/m2) | 1890 | 78·8 | 1133 | 54·5 | 517 | 60·4 |
| Overweight (25·0–29·99 kg/m2) | 378 | 15·8 | 624 | 30·0 | 222 | 25·9 |
| Obese (≥30·0 kg/m2) | 130 | 5·4 | 322 | 15·5 | 117 | 13·7 |
| Total | 2398 | 2079 | 856 | |||
| Women’s age (years) | ||||||
| 15–29 | 2021 | 69·3 | 1286 | 56·7 | 664 | 67·3 |
| 30–39 | 510 | 17·5 | 690 | 30·4 | 189 | 19·2 |
| 40–49 | 384 | 13·2 | 293 | 12·9 | 133 | 13·5 |
| Total | 2915 | 2269 | 986 | |||
| Women’s employment status | ||||||
| Not working | 1545 | 53·0 | 607 | 26·8 | 446 | 45·2 |
| Self-employment | 442 | 15·2 | 118 | 5·2 | 67 | 6·8 |
| Employed, any cash | 868 | 29·8 | 1522 | 67·1 | 469 | 47·6 |
| Employed, in kind only | 58 | 2·0 | 20 | 0·9 | 4 | 0·4 |
| Total | 2913 | 2267 | 986 | |||
| Women’s education | ||||||
| No education | 330 | 11·3 | 66 | 2·9 | 54 | 5·5 |
| Primary | 1573 | 54·0 | 1025 | 45·2 | 345 | 34·9 |
| Secondary or higher | 1012 | 34·7 | 1177 | 51·9 | 588 | 59·6 |
| Total | 2915 | 2268 | 987 | |||
| Marital status | ||||||
| Never married | 1676 | 57·5 | 563 | 2·8 | 490 | 49·6 |
| Married/living together | 953 | 32·7 | 1399 | 61·7 | 385 | 39·0 |
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 286 | 9·8 | 307 | 13·5 | 112 | 11·4 |
| Total | 2915 | 2269 | 987 | |||
| Number of children under 5 years in household | ||||||
| 0 | 1160 | 39·8 | 867 | 38·2 | 480 | 48·7 |
| 1 | 963 | 33·0 | 939 | 41·4 | 346 | 35·1 |
| 2 | 528 | 18·1 | 396 | 17·5 | 109 | 11·0 |
| ≥3 | 264 | 9·2 | 66 | 2·9 | 51 | 5·2 |
| Total | 2915 | 2268 | 986 | |||
| Religion | ||||||
| Roman Catholic | 2038 | 71·4 | 1685 | 74·9 | 606 | 62·1 |
| Protestant/other Christian | 595 | 20·8 | 483 | 21·5 | 218 | 22·3 |
| Muslim | 222 | 7·8 | 82 | 3·6 | 152 | 15·6 |
| Total | 2855 | 2250 | 976 | |||
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| Kikuyu | 393 | 13·5 | 672 | 29·6 | 277 | 28·0 |
| Kalenjin | 592 | 20·3 | 191 | 8·4 | 76 | 7·7 |
| Kamba | 391 | 13·4 | 377 | 16·6 | 65 | 6·6 |
| Luhya | 355 | 12·2 | 340 | 15·0 | 129 | 13·1 |
| Luo | 151 | 5·2 | 198 | 8·7 | 164 | 16·7 |
| Mijikenda/Swahili | 142 | 4·8 | 73 | 3·2 | 55 | 5·6 |
| Somali | 108 | 3·7 | 19 | 0·9 | 67 | 6·8 |
| Other | 783 | 26·9 | 399 | 17·6 | 153 | 15·5 |
| Total | 2915 | 2269 | 986 | |||
| Household wealth quintile | ||||||
| Poorest | 831 | 28·5 | 98 | 4·3 | 81 | 8·2 |
| Poorer | 741 | 25·4 | 164 | 7·2 | 98 | 9·9 |
| Middle | 770 | 26·4 | 215 | 9·5 | 88 | 8·9 |
| Richer | 438 | 15·0 | 617 | 27·2 | 212 | 21·5 |
| Richest | 135 | 4·7 | 1175 | 51·8 | 508 | 51·5 |
| Total | 2915 | 2269 | 987 | |||
*
Weighted.