Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant mothers by time of booking, University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2013 (N = 369).

Variables	Frequency (%)
Age
15–19	24 (6.5%)
20–24	153 (41.5%)
25–29	135 (36.6%)
30–34	46 (12.5%)
35–40	11 (3.0%)
Marital status
Married	366 (99.2%)
Single	3 (0.8%)
Educational status
No formal education	72 (19.5%)
Primary (1–8)	74 (20.1%)
Secondary (9–12)	142 (38.5%)
Above secondary	81 (22.0%)
Ethnicity
Amhara	354 (95.9%)
Tigre	15 (4.1%)
Religion
Christianity#	320 (86.7%)
Muslim	49 (13.3%)
Occupation
Employed	124 (33.6%)
Nonemployed	245 (66.4%)

Christianity^# = orthodox + protestant + catholic.