Table 1.

Background characteristics of the study participants, in 2019 (n = 8885)

Background characteristics	Weighted Frequency (n)	Weighted Percent (%)
Region
Tigray Afar Amhara Oromia Somali Benishangul SNNPR Gambela Harari Addis Ababa Dire Dawa	733 641 948 1052 640 747 1008 723 763 818 812	8.2 7.2 10.7 11.8 7.2 8.4 11.3 8.1 8.6 9.2 9.1
Place of residence
Urban Rural	2951 5934	33.2 66.8
Literacy
Cannot read at all Able to read only parts of sentence Able to read whole sentence No card with required language Blind/visually impaired	4406 1067 2904 505 3	49.6 12.0 32.7 5.7 0.0
Educational Level
No education Primary Secondary Higher	3640 3345 1149 751	41.0 37.6 12.9 8.5
Religion
Orthodox Protestant Muslim Catholic Traditional Others	3374 78 1711 3635 60 27	38.0 0.9 19.3 40.9 0.7 0.3
Wealth index
Poorest Poorer Middle Richer Richest	2031 1341 1268 1344 2901	22.9 15.1 14.3 15.1 32.7