. 2019 Jan 7;5:3. doi: 10.1186/s40795-018-0268-1

Table 1.

Child and parents related characteristics among children aged 6–23 months in Damot Sore District, Southern Ethiopia, from March to April 2017

Characteristics	Categories	Frequency (N = 485)	Percent (%)
Sex of the child	Male	243	50.9
Sex of the child	Female	234	49.1
Age of the mother	15–24 years	84	17.6
	25–34 years	246	55.3
	35–49 years	129	27.0
Age of the child	6–11 months	190	39.8
	12–17 months	160	33.5
	18–23 months	127	26.6
Educational status of mother	No formal education	307	64.4
Educational status of mother	Formal education	170	35.6
Educational status of father	No formal education	238	49.9
Educational status of father	Formal education	236	49.5
Mother’s occupation	Unemployed	459	96.2
Mother’s occupation	Government/private employee	18	3.8
Father’s occupation	Unemployed	454	95.2
Father’s occupation	Government/private employee	19	4
Total number of family size within households	Less than or equal to 5	219	45.9
Total number of family size within households	Greater than 5	258	54.1
Number of under five children within household	More than one child	240	50.3
Number of under five children within household	One child	237	49.7
Wealth	Low	201	42.1
	Middle	72	15.1
	High	204	42.8
Introduction time of complementary feeding	Earlier than 6 months	223	46.8
Introduction time of complementary feeding	Just at 6 months	254	53.2
Breast feeding practice	Poor	113	23.7
	Good	331	69.4
	Never breast feed at all	33	6.9
Source of drinking water	Piped inside compound	36	7.5
	Public	351	73.6
	Protected well/spring	90	18.9
Toilet	No facility/bush/field	12	2.5
Toilet	Have latrine	465	97.5
Utilization of Insecticide Treated Net (ITN)	Not appropriately	45	9.4
	Appropriately	404	84.7
	Never had ITN at all	28	5.9
Having diarrhoea	No	313	65.8
Having diarrhoea	Yes	163	34.2
Having Malaria	Yes	21	4.4
Having Malaria	No	456	95.6
Having low dietary diversity score	Yes	313	65.6
Having low dietary diversity score	No	164	34.4