Table 2.
ARI prevalence by sample characteristics for children under 5 years of age [percentage or mean (Std Dev)], NDHS 2013
| Total (N =28,596) |
ARI prevalence | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage or mean | Std. Dev. | Percentage or mean | ||
| Explanatory variables | ||||
| Lifestyle and health behaviors | ||||
| Cooking method | ||||
| Kerosene/charcoal outdoors or in a separate place | 10.03 | 0.64 | ||
| In-house use of biomass fuel for cooking | 42.11 | 2.07 | ||
| In-house use of kerosene/charcoal for cooking | 11.33 | 1.20 | ||
| Cooking using biomass fuel outdoors or in a separate place | 34.86 | 2.39 | ||
| Other | 1.68 | 1.29 | ||
| Smoking status of members of the household | ||||
| Yes | 6.82 | 2.89 | ||
| No | 93.18 | 1.86 | ||
| Hand-washing | ||||
| Observed | 38.78 | 1.36 | ||
| Not observed | 61.22 | 2.27 | ||
| Individual and household covariates | ||||
| Child’s background | ||||
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 49.89 | 1.96 | ||
| Male | 50.11 | 1.90 | ||
| Age (in months) | 28.14 | 17.32 | ||
| 0–5 | 10.32 | 1.46 | ||
| 6–11 | 11.27 | 2.82 | ||
| 12–23 | 20.37 | 3.08 | ||
| 24–35 | 18.95 | 2.08 | ||
| 36–59 | 39.08 | 1.12 | ||
| Birth order | 3.88 | 2.54 | ||
| 1–3 | 52.20 | 1.79 | ||
| 4–6 | 31.73 | 1.76 | ||
| >6 | 16.07 | 2.70 | ||
| OVC status | ||||
| OVC | 3.91 | 3.54 | ||
| Non-OVC | 96.09 | 1.86 | ||
| Household’s background | ||||
| Maternal education | ||||
| No education | 48.31 | 1.96 | ||
| Primary education | 19.16 | 2.05 | ||
| Secondary and above | 32.53 | 1.81 | ||
| Household wealth | ||||
| Richest | 18.14 | 0.98 | ||
| Richer | 18.14 | 1.35 | ||
| Middle | 19.07 | 2.03 | ||
| Poorer | 22.40 | 2.88 | ||
| Poorest | 22.96 | 2.09 | ||
| Outcome measure | ||||
| Symptoms of ARI | 1.93 | |||
aUnweighted N’s and weighted percentages and means are reported. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding