Table 1.

Study characteristics and anemia prevalence’s for groups of individuals.

	All		Anemia
Group	n	%	n	Weighteda % [95% CI]
All	1537		785	49.6 [ 46.5-52.6]
Age
6-11 months	224	14.6	144	62.8 [55.0-70.0]
12-23 months	395	25.7	264	64.2 [58.7-69.4]
24-35 months	341	22.2	173	49.5 [43.4-55.6]
36-47 months	304	19.8	118	38.8 [32.6-45.3]
48-59 months	273	17.8	86	30.1 [24.2-26.7]
Sex
Boys	751	49.0	406	52.7 [48.5-57.0]
Girls	786	51.0	379	46.5 [42.5-50.7]
Place of residence
Urban	633	43.2	313	48.0 [43.2-53.0]
Rural	904	56.8	472	50.8 [46.9-54.6]
Household wealth status
Richest	180	12.6	70	38.3 [31.7-45.4]
Richer	324	20.9	155	47.7 [40.5-55.1]
Middle	331	19.6	174	51.9 [45.2-58.6]
Poor	328	21.1	189	55.0 [48.6-61.2]
Poorest	374	25.8	197	50.4 [44.7-56.2]
Mother education level
Higher	60	5.2	508	68.7 [64.4-72.7]
Secondary	964	64.3	483	50.0 [46.2-53.8]
Primary	385	24.1	210	25.4 [21.7-29.5]
No education	128	6.4	67	5.9 [4.4-7.9]
Using vitamin A supplementb
Yes	1319	86.4	669	49.5 [46.1-52.9]
No	183	11.8	99	50.8 [42.5-59.0]
Don’t know	25	1.7	12	41.8 [21.9-64.8]
Using deworming medicineb
Yes	672	43.5	347	51.0 [46.3-55.7]
No	792	52.3	402	48.7 [44.6-52.8]
Don’t know	66	4.2	34	48.4 [33.8-63.2]
Stuntingc
No	1,119	77.1	562	48.4 [45.1-51.9]
Yes	352	22.9	191	52.3 [46.1-58.4]
Underweightc
No	1,263	85.9	649	49.3 [46.0-52.5]
Yes	208	14.1	104	49.6 [41.4-57.8]
Wastingc
No	1,355	92.3	682	48.5 [45.3-51.8]
Yes	116	7.7	71	58.9 [48.4-68.6]

^aUsing sampling weights from the Namibia Demographic and Health Survey.

^bThere were missing data for ten persons for “Using vitamin A supplement” and seven persons for “Using deworming medicine”.

^cThere were missing data for weight and/or height, and also values outside plausible limits for stunting, underweight and wasting.