Table 2.

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics of households in high and low hotspot districts of Amhara Region, northwest Ethiopia, February–March 2015

Variables	HH in high hotspot districts		HH in low hotspot districts		X 2 test	p value
	No	%	No	%
Place of residence
Urban	239	19.1	177	14.3	10.32	0.001
Rural	1015	80.9	1064	85.7
Relation of the mothers/care giver to the child
Mother	1234	98.4	1210	97.5	2.54	0.111
Care giver	20	1.6	31	2.5
Mothers/care givers age (years)
20–29	175	15.2	170	14.4	8.03	0.045
30–39	589	51.1	576	48.8
40–49	332	28.8	345	29.2
≥50	56	4.9	90	7.6
Mothers’ education
Unable to read and write	771	61.5	891	71.8	51.584	<0.001
Able to read and write	77	6.1	95	7.7
Primary	182	14.5	141	11.4
Secondary	130	10.4	64	5.1
Higher	94	7.5	50	4.0
Occupation of mothers
Not working	253	20.2	132	10.6	78.8578	<0.001
Daily laborer	68	5.4	51	4.1
Farmer	808	64.4	982	79.1
Employee	71	5.7	60	4.8
Merchant	54	4.3	16	1.3
Marital status of the mother
Married	1100	87.7	1159	93.4	29.3206	<0.001
Single	13	1.0	3	0.2
Widowed	21	1.7	21	1.8
Separated	39	3.1	19	1.5
Divorced	81	6.5	39	3.1
Religion
Orthodox Christian	1242	99.0	1220	98.7	2.58	0.108
Others	12	1.0	21	1.7
Parents’ education
Unable to read and write	380	30.3	468	37.7	62.69	<0.001
Able to read and write	258	20.6	248	28.0
Primary	263	21.0	211	17.0
Secondary	126	10.1	72	5.8
Higher	125	10.0	82	6.6
Occupation of parents
Daily laborer	78	6.2	33	2.7	67.305	<0.001
Farmer	792	63.2	960	77.4
Employee	202	16.1	149	12.0
Merchant	80	6.4	39	3.1
Child sex
Male	622	49.6	696	56.1	10.5181	0.001
Female	632	50.4	545	43.9
Child’s age (months)
0–5	139	11.1	129	10.4	11.026	0.051
6–11	108	8.6	86	6.9
12–23	263	21.0	236	19.0
24–35	250	19.9	293	23.6
36–47	287	22.9	260	21.0
48–59	207	16.5	237	19.1
Number of under five children
One child	1114	88.8	1107	89.2	3.979	0.137
Two children	139	11.1	128	10.3
Three children	1	0.1	6	0.5
Family size
≤5	854	68.1	757	61.0	13.76	<0.001
>5	400	31.9	484	39.0
Wealth index
Poor	438	34.9	313	25.2	50.48	<0.001
Medium	416	33.2	578	46.6
Rich	400	31.9	350	28.2