Table 2.
Key characteristics of the participants*
| Factors | No (%) |
|---|---|
| Parental characteristics | |
| Maternal education | |
| No education | 211 (3.0) |
| Primary | 1973 (28.3) |
| Secondary | 2709 (38.8) |
| Diploma | 791 (11.3) |
| Bachelor’s degree | 1201 (17.2) |
| Master’s degree and above | 97 (1.4) |
| Maternal age at birth | |
| < 20 years | 672 (9.8) |
| 20–29 years | 2996 (43.9) |
| 30–39 years | 2456 (36.0) |
| 40 years and above | 701 (10.3) |
| Number of ANC visits | |
| < 4 Times | 65 (0.9) |
| ≥ 4 Times | 1892 (27.0) |
| Cannot remember visit number | 5061 (72.1) |
| Currently breastfeeding | |
| Yes | 750 (11.3) |
| No | 5887 (88.7) |
| Duration of breastfeeding | |
| ≤ 12 months | 4591 (69.2) |
| > 12 months | 2043 (30.8) |
| Child characteristics | |
| Perceived size of baby at birth | |
| Small | 188 (2.7) |
| Average | 1503 (21.4) |
| Large | 341 (4.9) |
| Cannot clearly determine the size | 4986 (71.0) |
| Child’s age (months) | |
| 13–24 months | 1696 (24.3) |
| 25–36 months | 1836 (26.3) |
| 37–48 months | 1791 (25.6) |
| 49–59 months | 1662 (23.8) |
| History of recent diarrhoea | |
| Yes | 302 (4.3) |
| No | 6670 (95.7) |
| Stunting | |
| No | 5626 (85.9) |
| Yes | 925 (14.1) |
| Household level factors | |
| Wealth index | |
| Poorest | 914 (13.1) |
| Poorer | 1182 (16.9) |
| Middle | 1537 (22.0) |
| Richer | 1735 (24.9) |
| Richest | 1610 (23.1) |
| Community level factors | |
| Type of residence | |
| Municipal | 3695 (52.7) |
| Non-municipal | 3323 (47.3) |
| Geographic zone | |
| Bangkok | 654 (9.3) |
| Central | 1474 (21.0) |
| Northern | 1543 (22.0) |
| Northeastern | 1650 (23.5) |
| Southern | 1697 (24.2) |
Note:
• As the volume of missing data in each variable was small, missing data were not reported in the table
• The wealth index variable was analyzed by the NSO based on the full samples, while this study focused on household of over-12-month children. Thus, the proportion of our samples for each quintile was not exactly equal to 20%