Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of intestinal nematode-infected pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in southern Ebonyi State, Nigeria, 2012 (n = 797)
| Characteristics | Responses | Frequency | Percentage (%) |
| Age (years) | ≤ 20 | 228 | 28.6 |
| 21–30 | 299 | 37.5 | |
| 31–40 | 207 | 26.0 | |
| ≥ 41 | 63 | 7.9 | |
| Marital status | Single | 63 | 7.9 |
| Married | 723 | 90.7 | |
| Occupation | Trading | 219 | 27.5 |
| Farming | 163 | 20.5 | |
| Civil service | 190 | 23.8 | |
| Small business | 200 | 25.1 | |
| Schooling | 18 | 2.2 | |
| Unemployed | 7 | 0.9 | |
| Education(years) | Primary 1–6 | 672 | 84.3 |
| Secondary 1–6 | 106 | 13.3 | |
| No formal education | 19 | 2.4 | |
| Religion | Christianity | 771 | 96.7 |
| Moslem | 0 | 0 | |
| Traditionalist | 0 | 0 | |
| Other religions | 26 | 3.3 | |
| Gestational age | First trimester | 80 | 10.0 |
| Second trimester | 278 | 34.9 | |
| Third trimester | 437 | 55.1 | |
| Parity | Primigravidae | 327 | 41.0 |
| Secundigravidae | 120 | 15.1 | |
| Multigravidae | 350 | 43.9 | |
| Geophagy | Yes | 370 | 46.4 |
| No | 427 | 53.6 | |
| Intestinal nematodes | Ascaris lumbricoides | 416 | 52.2 |
| Hookworm | 352 | 44.4 | |
| Trichuris trichiura | 17 | 2.1 | |
| Strongyloides | 10 | 1.3 | |
| stercoralis | |||