Table 4.

The magnitude of reported physical disciplining against their pre-school children, from four regions of Ethiopia (n = 1139)

Level of physical disciplining	Incidents	Prevalence	95% CI
Moderate physical disciplining
Last 12 month   Lifetime	701 743	61.5 65.2	58.7 – 64.4 62.5 – 68.0
Harsh physical disciplining
Last 12 month   Lifetime	562 598	49.3 52.5	46.4 – 52.2 49.6 – 55.4