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. 2021 Jun 15;13(6):2050. doi: 10.3390/nu13062050

Table 1.

Distributions of child, mother, household and contextual variables.

Variable Weighted n (%) Variable Weighted n (%)
OM/WC Employment status
Normal 166,058 98 No 59,817 37
Wasting 3335 2 Yes 100,628 63
OM/SC ANC
Normal 156,387 92 No 12,262 10
Stunting 13,007 8 Yes 106,281 90
OM/UC PNC
Normal 162,158 96 No 63,838 59
Underweight 7236 4 Yes 45,140 41
OM/AC Household characteristics
Normal 148,790 88 Age of household head
Anemic 20,604 12 Young adults 75,105 44
TBM Middle-aged adults 73,311 43
Normal 168,660 99 Old-aged adults 20,975 12
OM/SC/WC/UC and AC 734 1 Sex of household head
Child characteristics Male 136,212 80
Age of child Female 33,182 20
0 34,564 20 Household size
1 35,793 21 Small 69,944 41
2 33,487 20 Medium 78,415 46
3 33,693 20 Large 21,035 12
4 31,856 19 Wealth status
Sex of child Poor 75,261 44
Male 85,523 50 Middle 33,996 20
Female 83,871 50 Rich 60,136 36
Birth order Access to electricity
1 35,347 21 No 119,345 70
2 81,981 48 Yes 50,032 30
3 and above 52,065 31 Source of drinking water
Perceived birth size Improved 109,141 64
Larger than average 54,853 34 Unimproved 60,232 36
Average 78,374 49 Type of toilet facility
Smaller than average 24,950 16 Improved 72,110 43
Do not know 2314 1 Unimproved 97,246 57
Mother characteristics Type of cooking fuel
Age of mother Unclean 154,729 91
15–19 9383 6 Clean 14,648 9
20–24 36,523 22 Contextual
25–29 47,310 28 Urbanicity
30–34 36,577 22 Urban 52,513 31
35–49 25,071 15 Rural 116,881 69
40–44 11,200 7 Geographic region
45–49 3330 2 Western Africa 63,978 38
Educational attainment Eastern Africa 69,144 41
No formal 67,012 40 Central Africa 32,899 19
Primary 58,079 34 Southern Africa 3373 2
Secondary 38,671 23 n 169,394
Higher 5633 3

NB: Obese/overweight Mother and Anaemic Child = OM/AC; Obese/overweight Mother and Stunted Child = OM/SC, obese/overweight mother and wasted child = OM/WC; obese/overweight mother and underweight child = OM/UC; antenatal care = ANC; postnatal care = PNC.