Table 1.
Nutritional status of children by selected independent variables, KA-HDSS, Tigray, northern Ethiopia (n = 1, 525).
| Characteristics | Categories | Row distribution of Nutritional status of children, n (%) |
Column total, n (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUAC ≥-2 z-score | MUAC <-2 z-score | |||
| Residence | Semi-urban | 80 (94.1) | 5 (5.9) | 85 (5.6) |
| Rural | 1,236 (85.8) | 204 (14.2) | 1, 440 (94.4) | |
| Sex of household head | Male | 1,137 (85.8) | 188 (14.2) | 1, 325 (86.9) |
| Female | 179 (89.5) | 21 (10.5) | 200 (13.1) | |
| Sex of child | Male | 635 (84.1) | 120 (15.9) | 755 (49.5) |
| Female | 681 (88.4) | 89 (11.6) | 770 (50.5) | |
| Educational status of household head | No formal education | 886 (85.8) | 146 (14.2) | 1, 032 (67.7) |
| Formal education | 428 (87.2) | 63 (12.8) | 491 (3.2) | |
| Missing | 2 (0.1) | |||
| Occupation of household head | Farmer/housewife | 1,123 (86.9) | 169 (13.1) | 1,292 (84.7) |
| Daily laborer | 110 (76.9) | 33 (23.1) | 143 (9.4) | |
| Government employee and others | 83 (92.2) | 7 (7.8) | 90 (5.9) | |
| Mean age of household head in years (SD) | 42.3 (11.1) | 44.8 (11.5) | 1, 525 | |
| Mean child dietary diversity score | 2.2 (1.5) | 1.9 (1.3) | 1, 525 | |
| Maternal MUAC | normal | 814 (89.6) | 94 (10.4) | 908 (60.1) |
| Undernourished | 491 (81.3) | 113 (18.7) | 604 (39.9) | |
| History of adult death | No history adult death | 1,234 (86.0) | 200 (14.0) | 1, 434 (94.0) |
| Yes-from chronic diseases | 40 (88.9) | 5 (11.1) | 45 (2.9) | |
| Yes- from acute infectious diseases, injuries and other causes | 42 (91.3) | 4 (8.7) | 46 (3.0) | |
| Mean quintile wealth status (SD) | 3.1 (1.4) | 2.5 (1.4) | 1, 483 | |
| Geographic location | Low/midland | 906 (87.3) | 132 (12.7) | 1, 038 (68.1) |
| Highland | 306 (81.6) | 69 (18.4) | 375 (24.6) | |
| Missing | 112 (7.3) | |||
| Morbidity history in the past 2 weeks | No | 1,274 (86.7) | 195 (13.3) | 1, 469 (96.3) |
| Yes | 41 (74.5) | 14 (25.5) | 55 (3.6) | |
| Missing | 1 (0.07) | |||
| Mean household size (SD) | 6.2 (2.0) | 6.8 (1.9) | 1, 525 | |
| No crop/monocrop production | Yes | 575 (83.8) | 111 (16.2) | 686 (45.0) |
| No | 741 (88.3) | 98 (11.7) | 839 (55.0) | |