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. 2018 May 11;14(10):2365–2372. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2018.1460985

Table 2.

Summary of pooled sample characteristics of the Demographic and Health Surveys data in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Number (%)
Number of children 69657
Child's age (mean (sd)) 17.13 (3.42)
Male (%) 35249 (50.6)
High birth order (%) 21723 (31.2)
Number of under-five children (mean (sd)) 2.02 (1.32)
Maternal age (%)  
 15–24 23931 (34.4)
 25–34 31828 (45.7)
 35–49 13898 (20.0)
Wealth index(%)  
 Poorest 17598 (25.3)
 Poorer 15314 (22.0)
 Middle 13690 (19.7)
 Richer 12344 (17.7)
 Richest 10711 (15.4)
Maternal education (%)  
 No education 28310 (40.6)
 Educated 41347 (59.4)
Not working (%) 22032 (31.6)
Media access (%)  
 0 23736 (34.1)
 1 22378 (32.1)
 2 16921 (24.3)
 3 6622 (9.5)
Neighbourhood SES (%)  
 Quintile 1 (least disadvantaged) 14555 (20.9)
 Quintile 2 13812 (19.8)
 Quintile 3 13936 (20.0)
 Quintile 4 13908 (20.0)
 Quintile 5 (most disadvantaged) 13446 (19.3)

SD: Standard deviation, SES: Socio-economic status.