Table 3.
Descriptive characteristics of childcare variables for samples Bolivia DHS 2008, Colombia DHS 2010 and Peru DHS 2012
| Bolivia 2008 (N = 3586) | Colombia 2010 (N = 9955) | Peru (N = 6260) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%)a | Mean | SD | N (%)a | Mean | SD | N (%)a | Mean | SD | ||
| Childcare variables | ||||||||||
| Hand wash after using the toilet | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 4186 (66.9) | ||||||
| No | 2073 (33.1) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Hand wash after changing diapers/cleaning baby | Yes | N.A. | 10,559 (94.5) | 1292 (20.6) | ||||||
| No | 617 (5.5) | 4967 (79.4) | ||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Hand wash before preparing meals | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 4487 (71.7) | ||||||
| No | 1772 (28.3) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Hand wash before serving food | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 1349 (21.6) | ||||||
| No | 4910 (78.4) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Hand wash before eating | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 4578 (73.1) | ||||||
| No | 1681 (26.9) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Hand wash before feeding child | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 1863 (29.8) | ||||||
| No | 4396 (70.2) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Disposal of child stools | Safe | 1293 (36.2) | 5182 (48.7) | 3287 (53.2) | ||||||
| Unsafe | 2274 (63.8) | 5454 (51.3) | 2888 (46.8) | |||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Take child to health facility if it doesn’t eat or drink | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 68 (1.1) | ||||||
| No | 6191 (98.9) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Take child to health facility if becomes sicker | Yes | N.A. | N.A. | 416 (6.6) | ||||||
| No | 5843 (93.4) | |||||||||
| Missing | 1 | |||||||||
| Take child to health facility if diarrhoea/fever/vomits | Yes | N.A. | 10,507 (94.0) | 5837 (93.3) | ||||||
| No | 669 (6.0) | 422 (6.7) | ||||||||
| Missing | 3 | |||||||||
| Take child to health facility if it has short, rapid breaths | Yes | N.A. | 1508 (13.5) | 1096 (17.5) | ||||||
| No | 9668 (86.5) | 5163 (82.5) | ||||||||
| Missing | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Take child to health facility if it has cough/difficulty breathing | Yes | N.A. | 3402 (30.4) | 2677 (42.8) | ||||||
| No | 7774 (69.6) | 3582 (57.2) | ||||||||
| Missing | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Take child to health facility if it has blood in stools | Yes | N.A. | 10,934 (97.8) | 196 (2.5) | ||||||
| No | 242 (2.2) | 7615 (97.5) | ||||||||
| Missing | 3 | |||||||||
| Minimum acceptable diet 6–59 monthsb | Yes | 898 (59.2) | 2619 (44.0) | 2699 (76.8) | ||||||
| No | 620 (40.8) | 3340 (56.0) | 833 (23.6) | |||||||
| Missing | 2068 | 3996 | 2728 | |||||||
| Complete immunization 0–59 months | Yes | 2812 (78.6) | 6480 (71.8) | 3754 (67.4) | ||||||
| No | 765 (21.4) | 2547 (28.2) | 1813 (32.6) | |||||||
| Missing | 9 | 928 | 693 | |||||||
N.A. indicates information not available
aValid percent, missing ignored
bMinimum acceptable diet was only available for a subset of the sample and excluded children 0–6 months