Table 1.

Frequency distribution of mothers by socio-demographic characteristics, Jimma zone, Oromia January 2016

Variables	Living arrangements		Total
	Rural (N = 353)	Urban (N = 352)
	N[%]	N[%]
Mother /Care taker age
15–24	59 [16.7]	108 [30.7]	167
25–34	243 [68.8]	222 [63]	465
35–45	51 [14.5]	22 [6.25]	73
Mother educational status
Illiterate	298 [84.4]	85 [24.1]	319
Read and write	55 [15.6]	59 [16.8]	80
		51 [14.5]	97
		56 [15.9]	96
		61 [17.3]	73
		40 [11.4]	40
Mother marital status
Married	348 [98.6]	333 (94.6)	681
Widowed	0	13 [3.7]	13
Divorced	5 [1.4]	6 [1.7]	11
Religion
Islam	320 [90.7]	277 [78.7]	597
Orthodox	16 [4.5]	59 [16.8]	75
Protestant	17 [4.8]	16 [4.5]	33
Ethnicity
Oromo	321 [90.9]	304 [86.4]	625
Amhara	8 [2.3]	24 [6.8]	52
Othera	24 [6.8]	24 [6.8]	48
Mother/care taker occupation
Farmer	164 [6.4]	30 [8.5]	194
Governmental employee	2 [0.6]	40 [11.4	42
House wife	178 [50.4]	227 [64.5]	405
Merchant	7 [2]	48 [11.6]	55
Otherb	2 [0.6]	7 [2]	9

^akaffa, Gurage, Yem, Tigirian, Wolayita and dawuro; ^bDaily laborers and housekeeper