Table 2.

Prevalence of diarrhea among children under 5 years of age from the 2010 DHS

Variable	Sample description			Reported diarrhea in previous 2 weeks
	N (weighted)†	%	n (weighted)†	%	95 % CI	Chi-square p-value
Diarrhea	–		1132	13.2	[12.3,14.1]	N/A
Age in months (mean = 31, SD = 17)						<0.001
< 6	732	8.5	48	6.6	[5.0,8.6]
6–11	841	9.8	184	21.8	[19.1,24.9]
12–23	1616	18.8	404	25.0	[22.8,27.4]
24–35	1824	21.2	242	13.3	[11.6,15.1]
36–47	1739	20.2	152	8.7	[7.4,10.3]
48–59	1849	21.5	103	5.6	[4.5,6.8]
Gender						0.023
Boys	4361	50.7	610	14.0	[12.9,15.2]
Girls	4240	49.3	522	12.3	[11.2,13.5]
Treated for intestinal parasites within past 6 months						0.001
No	1783	20.7	275	15.4	[13.8,17.2]
Yes	6813	79.3	856	12.6	[11.7,13.5]
Mother’s age in years (mean = 31, SD = 6.6)						<0.001
15–24	1541	17.9	285	18.5	[16.3,20.9]
25–34	4744	55.2	600	12.7	[11.6,13.7]
35–49	2316	26.9	247	10.7	[9.3,12.2]
Mother employed outside the home						0.022
No	1752	91.1	265	15.1	[13.1,17.4]
Yes	6841	8.9	867	12.7	[11.8,13.6]
Residence						0.746
Urban	1031	20.4	140	13.6	[11.0,16.6]
Rural	7570	79.6	992	13.1	[12.2,14.1]
Mother’s highest educational level						0.243
No education and primary	7840	12	1044	13.3	[12.4,14.3]
Secondary and High	762	88	88	11.6	[9.2,14.5]
Number of mother’s living children						<0.001
1–3 children	5212	60.6	751	14.4	[13.3,15.6]
4+ children	3389	39.4	381	11.2	[10.2,12.4]
Household in lowest 2 wealth quintiles						<0.001
No	4759	55.3	561	11.8	[10.7,12.9]
Yes	3842	44.7	571	14.9	[13.6,16.2]
Total	8601	100	1132	13.2	[12.3,14.1]

†N(weighted) is the reported N accounting for the inverse probability sample weight