Table 1.

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics of study participants from Amhara region, 2020 (n = 384)

Variables	n	%	Mean (sd)
Father has some formal education	130	33⋅9
Maternal characteristics
Age, years			28⋅3 (5⋅5)
No education	261	68⋅0
Some formal education	123	32⋅0
Housewife	126	32⋅8
Farmer	186	48⋅4
Othersa	72	18⋅7
Married	347	90⋅4
Separated	31	8⋅1
Widowed	6	1⋅6
Child characteristics
Age, months			22⋅7 (13⋅1)
Proportion male	228	59⋅4
Household characteristics
Family size			4⋅9 (1⋅6)
Number of under-five children			1⋅5 (0⋅6)
Estimated monthly income (Eth. Birr)			906⋅2 (2075⋅1)
Owns livestock	270	70⋅3
Owns chickens	27	7⋅0
Protected drinking water source
Protected	213	55⋅5
Wealth indexb
Poor	176	45⋅8
Middle	149	38⋅8
Upper	59	15⋅4

^aDaily labourer/government employee/petty trade.

^bWealth index is constructed using principal component analysis (PCA).