TABLE 1.

Participant characteristics and child feeding practices at study entry ^a

	Mothers n = 50	Fathers n = 40
Age in years, mean (range)	28.7 (17–45)	35 (22–62)
Education
No education	12 (24%)	5 (13%)
Some primary	5 (10%)	4 (10%)
Completed primary	31 (62%)	23 (58%)
Some secondary	2 (4%)	8 (20%)
Work
Not working outside the home	2 (4%)	0
Daily wage worker	1 (2%)	3 (8%)
Agricultural worker in own field	42 (84%)	35 (88%)
Business/vendor	5 (10%)	0
Other	0	2 (5%)
Number of children, mean (range)	3 (1–8)	5 (1–14)
Child age in months, mean (range)	10.4 (6–18)	10.9 (6–18)
Child sex
Male	31 (62%)	26 (65%)
Female	19 (38%)	14 (35%)
Marital status
Single/never married	1 (2%)
Married/living with partner	50 (94%)
Separated/divorced	2 (4%)
Spouse home every day in the past week	46 (92%)
Spouse travels often	13 (26%)
Mother‐in‐law lives nearby	21 (42%)
Mother lives nearby	17 (32%)
Household hunger b
Little to no hunger	37 (74%)
Moderate hunger	13 (26%)
Child still breastfeeding	48 (96%)
Complementary foods introduced	49 (98%)
Child fed animal‐source foods in previous 24 h
Dried or fresh fish	20 (40%)
Other meat	2 (4%)
Eggs	1 (2%)
Dairy	9 (18%)
Child met minimum diet diversity in previous 24 h	10 (20%)
Mean child dietary diversity score previous 24 h c	2.7
Child fed sugary foods or drinks in previous week	33 (62%)
Child fed sugary foods or drinks in previous 24 h	15 (30%)

^a Restricted to participants who completed all three TIPs visits.

^b Calculated from the Household Hunger Scale (Ballard et al., 2011).

^c Diet diversity score reflects number of food groups out of seven potential; four is minimum dietary diversity.