Table 1.
Characteristics of children, their mothers/caregivers and their households; Kalalé district, northern Benin, January–March 2014
| n | Mean or prevalence | sem or sep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child characteristics | |||
| Age (months) | 764 | 21·59 | 0·45 |
| Sex, male (%) | 764 | 48·95 | 1·81 |
| Vitamin A supplements (%) | 751 | 65·38 | 1·60 |
| Consumed protein foods per week* | 702 | 3·33 | 0·13 |
| DDS | 647 | 3·10 | 0·08 |
| Child anthropometry (%) | |||
| Wasting | 585 | 10·94 | 1·29 |
| Underweight | 639 | 23·63 | 1·68 |
| Stunting | 593 | 39·80 | 2·01 |
| Mother/caregiver characteristics | |||
| Age (years) | 764 | 29·86 | 0·24 |
| Mother’s education (%) | |||
| No formal education | 755 | 90·33 | 1·08 |
| Primary or less | 4·37 | 0·74 | |
| Secondary | 5·03 | 0·80 | |
| University and more | 0·26 | 0·19 | |
| Mother’s occupation† (%) | |||
| Agricultural/other labour | 759 | 50·07 | 1·82 |
| Service/business | 16·86 | 1·36 | |
| Others | 33·07 | 1·71 | |
| Consumed protein foods* by female adults per week | 727 | 6·01 | 0·13 |
| DDS | 765 | 3·87 | 0·05 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 585 | 22·19 | 0·13 |
| Household characteristics | |||
| Household size | 764 | 7·74 | 0·14 |
| Religion (%) | |||
| Muslim | 767 | 92·12 | 0·98 |
| Others | 7·88 | 0·98 | |
| Ethnicity (%) | |||
| Gando | 762 | 34·51 | 1·72 |
| Boo | 23·88 | 1·54 | |
| Peulh | 15·49 | 1·31 | |
| Boko | 11·81 | 1·17 | |
| Bariba | 10·37 | 1·10 | |
| Others | 3·94 | 0·70 | |
| Frequency of fruits and vegetables consumption (%) | |||
| Never | 752 | 11·70 | 1·17 |
| Several times per month | 39·23 | 1·78 | |
| Once or twice per week | 29·65 | 1·67 | |
| Almost every day | 19·41 | 1·44 | |
| Health and sanitation (%) | |||
| Latrine | 742 | 13·21 | 1·24 |
| Safe source of water‡ | 757 | 65·13 | 1·73 |
| Electricity connection (%) | 747 | 8·17 | 1·00 |
| Food insecurity (%) | 754 | 21·09 | 1·49 |
| Health-care insecurity (%) | 740 | 32·97 | 1·73 |
| Source of information (d/week) | |||
| Radio | 752 | 3·37 | 0·11 |
| Television | 753 | 0·42 | 0·05 |
sem, standard error of the mean; sep, standard of error of the prevalence; DDS, dietary diversity score.
*
Protein foods included meat, egg, fish and cheese.
†
Agricultural/other labour=farming, livestock and hunting; services/business=small commerce, services, salaried employees and manual workers; others=students and unemployed/retired.
‡
Safe source of water included water from a tap and other sources that were treated.