Table 1.
Prevalence of anemia by selected characteristics among children under 5 years.
| Characteristics | Anemia in children under-5 |
|
|---|---|---|
| % | N | |
| Environmental | ||
| Toilet facility | ||
| Facility available | 55.1 | 9628 |
| No facility | 63.9 | 19787 |
| Type of house | ||
| Kaccha | 65.8 | 5329 |
| Semi pucca | 63.5 | 14396 |
| Pucca | 54.7 | 9614 |
| Type of cooking fuel | ||
| Clean fuel | 51.6 | 4790 |
| Unclean fuel | 62.8 | 24697 |
| House structure | ||
| Nuclear | 62.6 | 15201 |
| Non-nuclear | 59.2 | 15759 |
| Smoking (anyone in the house) | ||
| No | 60.9 | 31823 |
| Yes | 62.3 | 512 |
| Source of drinking water | ||
| Improved | 60.2 | 26496 |
| Not improved | 64.7 | 4399 |
| Seasonality | ||
| Winter | 59.7 | 18815 |
| Summer and rainy | 62.9 | 13526 |
| Child | ||
| Sex of child | ||
| Boy | 60.2 | 16623 |
| Girl | 61.8 | 15718 |
| Age of child (months) | ||
| <6 | 67.3 | 3218 |
| 6–23 | 61.8 | 9080 |
| 24–59 | 59.1 | 17541 |
| Birth order of child | ||
| 1 | 59.8 | 9609 |
| 2 | 59.4 | 8567 |
| 3 | 61.7 | 5296 |
| 4 | 63.4 | 8869 |
| Stunting | ||
| Normal | 59.0 | 15189 |
| Stunting | 62.9 | 17160 |
| Breastfeeding | ||
| Never breastfed | 61.5 | 1389 |
| Less than 6 months | 59.3 | 2023 |
| 6 months and above | 59.0 | 13816 |
| Still breastfeeding | 62.9 | 14879 |
| Taken drugs for parasitic infection | ||
| No | 61.3 | 26908 |
| Yes | 56.5 | 3079 |
| Socio-economic | ||
| Place of residence | ||
| Urban | 56.0 | 6956 |
| Rural | 62.4 | 24005 |
| Caste | ||
| Others | 57.6 | 7965 |
| OBC | 62.8 | 6962 |
| SC | 72.4 | 3723 |
| ST | 59.2 | 12646 |
| Religion | ||
| Hindu | 61.1 | 25583 |
| Muslim | 61.6 | 6349 |
| Others | 57.4 | 1372 |
| Mother’s education | ||
| No education | 66.5 | 6945 |
| Primary | 63.6 | 2592 |
| Secondary and above | 55.7 | 7001 |
| Mother’s working status | ||
| Not working | 60.6 | 22539 |
| Working | 61.9 | 9775 |
| Wealth index | ||
| Rich | 53.5 | 9037 |
| Middle | 61.3 | 6484 |
| Poor | 65.7 | 16820 |
| Region | ||
| North | 56.5 | 3980 |
| Central | 57.9 | 8933 |
| East and north east | 69.7 | 10956 |
| West | 56.3 | 3644 |
| South | 57.6 | 4827 |
| Media exposure of mother | ||
| Read newspaper or magazine | ||
| No | 63.6 | 24981 |
| Yes | 53.5 | 7330 |
| Watch television | ||
| No | 65.2 | 15968 |
| Yes | 57.4 | 16371 |
| Listen radio | ||
| No | 62.3 | 19967 |
| Yes | 59.0 | 12370 |