Table 2.

Association between independent variables using Cramer's V statistic

	Region	Place of residence	Age of the child	Sex of the child	Has fever	Had diarrhoea recently	Age of the mother at birth	Mother's education	SES	Number of PNC visits	Smoked during pregnancy	Chewed qat during pregnancy
Region	–
Place of residence	0.316*	–
Age of the child	0.044*	0.034	–
Sex of the child	0.019	0.001	0.023	–
Has fever	0.069*	0.03	0.123*	0.031*	–
Had diarrhoea recently	0.077*	0.049	0.206*	0.039*	0.328*	–
Age of the mother at birth	0.031	0.041	0.032	0.018	0.034**	0.023	–
Mother's education	0.188*	0.337*	0.024	0.002	0.037*	0.042*	0.211*	–
SES	0.228*	0.542*	0.042*	0.014	0.085*	0.085*	0.017	0.34*	–
Number of PNC visits	0.146*	0.368*	0.037**	0.014	0.013	0.028**	0.02	0.338*	0.244*	–
Smoked during pregnancy	0.196*	0.041*	0.028	0.012	0.084*	0.065*	0.079*	0.134*	0.171*	0.1*	–
Chewed qat during pregnancy	0.202*	0.082*	0.045**	0.005	0.112*	0.071*	0.102*	0.155*	0.21*	0.115*	0.554*	–

SES, socio‐economic status; PNC, prenatal care; *P < 0.001; **P < 0.05.