Table 1.

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of mothers of children under 24 months of age

	Mothers with children < 24 months (n = 294)
Mother
Age (years) (mean ± SD)	27.9 ± 4.9
Parity (number) (mean ± SD)	1.7 ± 1.0
Marital status (%)
Married	98.6
Divorced, widowed or separated	1.4
Level of education (%)
None	6.8
Nonformal education	0.0
Primary	35.4
Lower secondary	34.7
Upper secondary	15.6
Tertiary education	7.5
Works outside the home (%)	24.1
Main caregiver of child (%)	83.0
Received antenatal care (%)	92.9
Assisted delivery (%)	99.3
Child
Age (mean ± SD) (months)	11.7 ± 6.7 (months)
0–5	24.5
6–11	24.8
12–17	24.5
18–23	26.2
Sex (female) (%)	46.6
C‐section delivery (%)	14.6
Household
Safe source of drinking water (%)	95.2
Assets, ownership (%)
Bicycle	39.1
Car	20.4
Motorbike	80.6
Refrigerator	25.9
Television	85.0

SD, standard deviation; C‐section, caesarean section.