Table 2.

Select child (0–23 months), maternal, and household analytic sample characteristics

Characteristics	Afghanistan, DHS 2015	Bangladesh, DHS 2014	India, DHS 2015–16	Nepal, DHS 2016	Pakistan, DHS 2012–13
	N = 10, 830	N = 3089	N = 14,614	N = 1,939	N = 1,413
	%	%	%	%	%
Child characteristics
Child age (months)
0–6	27.9	21.1	23.1	22.9	28.3
6–8	14.1	12.9	14.3	12.1	11.6
9–11	10.2	14.6	12.9	13.6	14.5
12–17	32.4	27.0	25.8	25.9	30.1
18–23	15.4	24.4	23.9	25.5	15.5
Birth size
Larger than average	14.3	11.6	20.37	14.9	6.6
Average	60.5	68.4	67.7	68.1	72.1
Smaller than average	25.1	20.1	11.9	17.1	21.3
Birth type
Singlet	99.1	99.6	99.3	99.3	99.2
Multiple	0.9	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.8
Postnatal check‐up
None	75.1	35.6	61.1	63.9	48.9
≤2 days	9.5	55.0	28.9	10.2	41.9
>2 days	15.4	9.4	10.0	25.9	9.2
Maternal characteristics
Maternal age (years)
15–19	6.3	24.5	5.7	14.6	4.9
20–29	61.2	58.8	75.8	67.7	59.2
30+	32.5	16.8	18.5	17.7	35.9
Antenatal care (ANC) visit
0–3	78.8	68.5	44.2	28.5	60.1
4+	21.2	31.5	54.8	71.5	39.9
Delivery type
Cesarean	3.7	24.6	20.6	10.1	16.1
Normal	96.3	75.4	79.4	89.9	83.9
Place of delivery
Home	43.8	60.1	15.4	34.3	46.5
Health facility	56.2	39.9	84.6	65.7	53.5
Household characteristics
Wealth quintile
Richest	20.0	19.4	16.3	14.6	18.0
Richer	21.4	19.5	18.4	20.5	22.2
Middle	21.3	20.3	21.2	22.9	19.4
Poorer	19.6	19.0	20.9	21.0	20.1
Poorest	17.7	21.8	23.2	20.9	20.3

Note. DHS: Demographic and Health surveys.