Table 2.
Selected sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants attending antenatal care at public hospitals in Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: August 2019-December 2020 (n = 420).
| Variables | Categories | n (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Maternal age in years | ≤25 | 173 (41.2) |
| 25 to 29 | 85 (20.3) | |
| 30 to 34 | 63 (15) | |
| ≥35 | 99 (23.6) | |
| Spouse's education | Primary education | 70 (16.7) |
| Secondary education and above | 350 (83.3) | |
| Spouse's occupation | Government employee | 239 (56.9) |
| NGO employee | 41 (9.8) | |
| Daily laborer | 140 (33.3) | |
| Religion | Orthodox | 35 (8.3) |
| Muslim | 43 (10.2) | |
| Protestant | 316 (75.2) | |
| Catholic | 26 (6.2) | |
| Monthly income in birr | <1500 | 259 (61.7) |
| 1500-2499 | 41 (9.8) | |
| 2500-3999 | 39 (9.3) | |
| ≥4000 | 81 (19.3) | |
| Occupational status mothers | Housewife | 300 (71.4) |
| Government employee | 94 (22.4) | |
| NGO employee | 26 (6.2) | |
| Marital status mothers | Single | 21 (5) |
| Married | 280 (66.7) | |
| Divorced | 86 (20.5) | |
| Widowed | 33 (7.9) | |
| Education of mother | Primary education | 146 (34.8) |
| Secondary education and above | 274 (65.2) | |
| Ethnicity | Hadiya | 190 (45.2) |
| Kembata | 84 (20) | |
| Tigre | 25 (6) | |
| Gurage | 17 (4) | |
| Silte | 53 (12.6) | |
| Wolaita | 11 (1.5) | |
| Residence | Urban | 210 (50) |
| Rural | 210 (50) |