Table 1.

Socio-economic status of sampled households

Characteristics		Proportion of mothers/caregivers, children or mean
	All (n=1177)	Siaya(n=373)	Kilifi (n=404)	Kwale (n=400)	P-value‡
Sex of the study children (% female)	50.5	45.2	48.6	48.2	0.12
Age of the child in months (months)
6-11	13.6	10.4	10.2	20.0	0.00
12-24	34.8	34.2	28.9	41.3
24-36	21.9	23.2	22.1	19.7
36-59	29.8	31.5	38.8	19.0
Mother/caregivers <30 years old)	61.3	62.6	59.8	61.7	0.71
Children delivered at health facility	71.8	80.1	72.8	63.2	0.00
Mother/caregivers married	89.4	80.9	93.8	92.7	0.00
Mothers with > 1 child	56.6	45.9	65.3	56.3	0.00
Religious affiliation
Protestants	55.5	72.6	53.9	41.2	0.00
Catholic	15.7	26.8	14.4	6.6
Muslim	25.0	0.3	21.2	51.6
Others	3.7	0.3	10.5	0.3
Mother/caregivers with secondary education and above	12.5	24.7	6.1	7.6	0.00
Mother/caregivers employed	48.9	68.1	47.8	32.0	0.00
Mean household daily income in US$*	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.24
Mother/caregivers belonging to a mother support group	10.7	6.5	18.1	6.5	0.01
Mother/caregivers living ≤5 km away from health facility†	66.6	71.3	83.2	45.8	0.00
Taking ≤45 minutes travel to the health facility	64.2	87.8	52.2	54.4	0.00

^*Data collected in Kenya shillings and converted to USD using the prevailing rate at the time of the study (100Kshs=1 USD)

^†5km was the median distance to the health facility

^‡For continuous variables, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at α= 0.05. For categorical variables, Phi and Cramer’s V statistics at α= 0.05 used