Table 2. Socio-Demographic characteristics of Respondents, Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia, September 2012-December 2013 (n = 3463).
| Variables | No. | % |
| Place of residence | ||
| Urban | 861 | 24.9 |
| Rural | 2602 | 75.1 |
| Age (Years) | ||
| <20 | 174 | 5.0 |
| 20–29 | 2209 | 63.8 |
| ≥30 | 1080 | 31.2 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Oromo | 3033 | 87.6 |
| Amhara | 169 | 4.9 |
| Dawuro | 96 | 2.8 |
| Others* | 165 | 4.7 |
| Religion | ||
| Musilim | 3019 | 87.2 |
| Orthodox | 345 | 10.0 |
| Protestant | 99 | 2.9 |
| Educational status | ||
| No formal education | 1871 | 54.0 |
| Primary (1–8) | 1270 | 36.7 |
| Secondary (9–12) | 256 | 7.4 |
| >12 | 66 | 1.9 |
| Occupation | ||
| Housewife | 3280 | 94.7 |
| Employed (Gov't, NGO & Private) | 78 | 2.2 |
| Others‡ | 105 | 3.1 |
| Husband's Occupation | ||
| Farmer | 2459 | 71.0 |
| Employed (Gov't, NGO & Private) | 376 | 10.8 |
| Merchant | 413 | 11.9 |
| Daily laborer | 190 | 5.5 |
| Others‡ | 25 | 0.8 |
| Sex of neonates | ||
| Male | 1779 | 51.4 |
| Female | 1684 | 48.6 |
| Types of birth | ||
| Singleton | 3387 | 97.8 |
| Twins | 76 | 2.2 |
*Yem, Kaficho, Guraghe & Tigrie,
†
Single, divorced & widowed,
‡
Merchant, student, daily laborer,