Table 2.
Descriptive data and prevalence of anaemia among children of pre-school age in Jordan by the children’s characteristics, stratified by the survey phase
| JPFHS-07 (N 3789) | JPFHS-09 (N 3447) | JPFHS-07 and JPFHS-09 (N 7236) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children’s characteristics | % of children | % of anaemia | % of children | % of anaemia | P value† | Absolute difference‡ | % of children | % of anaemia |
| All | 100·0 | 40·4 | 100·0 | 33·9 | <0·001 | −6·5 | 100·0 | 37·3 |
| Age (months) | 0·097 | |||||||
| ≤24 | 35·0 | 53·8 | 37·0 | 49·4 | −4·3 | 36·0 | 51·7 | |
| 25–48 | 45·1 | 36·6 | 44·7 | 26·0 | −10·6 | 44·9 | 31·6 | |
| >48 | 19·9 | 25·2 | 18·3 | 22·1 | −3·1 | 19·2 | 23·8 | |
| P value§ | <0·001 | <0·001 | <0·001 | |||||
| Sex | 0·020 | |||||||
| Male | 49·5 | 41·2 | 52·2 | 34·0 | −7·2 | 50·8 | 37·7 | |
| Female | 50·5 | 39·6 | 47·8 | 33·8 | −5·8 | 49·2 | 36·9 | |
| P value§ | 0·29 | 0·92 | 0·51 | |||||
| Birth weight (g) | 0·321 | |||||||
| ≤2500 | 17·1 | 36·7 | 16·3 | 36·0 | −0·7 | 16·7 | 36·4 | |
| >2500 | 82·1 | 41·0 | 83·2 | 33·4 | −7·6 | 82·7 | 37·3 | |
| P value§ | 0·045 | 0·23 | 0·56 | |||||
| Missing | 0·07 | 0·05 | 0·06 | |||||
| Place of residence | 0·174 | |||||||
| Urban | 83·5 | 40·7 | 82·3 | 32·7 | −8·0 | 82·9 | 36·9 | |
| Rural | 16·5 | 38·7 | 17·7 | 39·8 | 1·1 | 17·1 | 39·2 | |
| P value§ | 0·34 | 0·001 | 0·12 | |||||
| Geographic location | ||||||||
| North | 28·2 | 31·0 | 31·8 | 36·0 | 5·0 | 29·9 | 33·6 | |
| Central | 62·3 | 45·6 | 58·1 | 31·6 | −14·0 | 60·3 | 39·2 | |
| South | 9·5 | 33·7 | 10·1 | 40·7 | 7·0 | 9·8 | 37·1 | |
| P value§ | <0·001 | <0·001 | <0·001 | |||||
| Duration of breast-feeding | <0·001 | |||||||
| ≥6 months | 77·2 | 40·9 | 76·6 | 36·0 | −4·9 | 77·0 | 38·6 | |
| <6 months | 16·6 | 36·0 | 19·3 | 27·0 | −9·0 | 17·9 | 31·4 | |
| Never | 6·2 | 45·1 | 4·0 | 28·1 | −17·0 | 5·1 | 38·7 | |
| P value§ | <0·025 | <0·001 | <0·001 | |||||
| Wealth index | <0·001 | |||||||
| Very poor | 27·5 | 43·7 | 24·2 | 42·3 | −1·4 | 25·9 | 43·1 | |
| Relatively poor | 23·6 | 40·8 | 26·9 | 36·5 | −4·3 | 25·2 | 38·6 | |
| Middle-income household | 21·4 | 38·5 | 19·8 | 31·4 | −7·1 | 20·6 | 35·2 | |
| Relatively rich | 16·2 | 33·0 | 19·1 | 29·5 | −3·5 | 17·6 | 31·2 | |
| Very rich | 11·3 | 45·5 | 10·0 | 20·0 | −5·5 | 10·7 | 34·1 | |
| P value§ | <0·001 | <0·001 | <0·001 | |||||
| Stunting of growth | <0·001 | |||||||
| No growth stunting | 85·3 | 39·6 | 91·8 | 32·8 | −6·8 | 88·5 | 36·2 | |
| Moderate growth stunting | 9·1 | 42·0 | 6·5 | 45·5 | 3·5 | 7·8 | 43·5 | |
| Severe growth stunting | 5·6 | 50·0 | 1·7 | 50·9 | 0·9 | 3·7 | 50·0 | |
| P value§ | 0·012 | <0·001 | <0·001 | |||||
| Missing | 5·9 | 1·3 | 3·7 | |||||
JPFHS, Jordan Population and Family Health Survey; N, weighted number of children.
†
P value from χ 2 test for the difference in the percentage of children according to children’s characteristics by the survey phase.
‡
Absolute difference in the occurrence of anaemia between the two surveys (prevalence in 2007 subtracted from prevalence in 2009).
§
P value from χ 2 test for the occurrence of anaemia among children according to children’s characteristics in each survey phase.