Table 3.
Demographic information of the mothers enrolled for observations and in-depth interviews in Matlab and Habigonj, Bangladesh, 2010–12
| Matlab | Habigonj | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Mothers of neonates (n = 20) | Mothers of Infants (n = 12) | Mothers of neonates (n = 20) | Mothers of Infants (n = 12) | |
| Age of mother | Median age (IQR) | 20 (19–22 years) | 21.5 (20–24 years) | 20 (18–24 years) | 21 (19–24 years) |
| Median age (IQR) (both neonates & infants) | 20 (19–22 years), Primi (n = 32) | 18 (17–20 years), Primi (n = 18) 25 (21–28 years), Multi (n = 14) | |||
| Mother’s marital status | Married | 100% | 100% | ||
| Sex of the child | Female | 12 | 9 | 10 | 3 |
| Male | 8 | 3 | 10 | 9 | |
| Age of the child | Median age (IQR) | 15.5 days (14–24 days) | 6.9 months (4–10 months) | 12.5 days (9–17 days) | 5 months (4–8 months) |
| Parity of mothers | Primi | 20 | 12 | 10 | 8 |
| Multi | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | |
| Type of delivery | Normal | 16 | 10 | 19 | 11 |
| C-section | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Delivery place | Delivery at parents’ home | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Delivery at marital home | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | |
| Delivery at facility | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | |
| Mother’s residence during interview | Marital home | 9 | 8 | 14 | 11 |
| Maternal home | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | |
| Education of mothers | No education (0) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| ≤ Class 5 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 4 | |
| Class 6–10 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Household income | Median income (IQR) | (N = 25)a US$ 128 (US$ 64–128) | (N = 30)b US$ 71(US$ 59–128) | ||
aSeven mothers in the Matlab site could not provide any specific information about their household income. Two of them had their own agricultural land, got crops (rice) yearly from those lands. These mothers were unable to provide approximate amount of equivalent cash income or expenditure
bTwo mothers in the Habigonj site did not know about the monthly income or expenditure of their family