Table 2 Feeding practices and family food choice for their children at Dabat HDSS site, northwest Ethiopia, February to June 2016 (n = 3433)
Variables | Frequency | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Breast feeding | ||
 No | 1640 | 47.77 |
 Yes | 1793 | 52.23 |
Time of complementary introduction | ||
 Before six months | 193 | 5.62 |
 At six months | 2047 | 59.63 |
 After six months | 1193 | 34.76 |
Preparation of Complementary Feeding | ||
 For the child only | 832 | 24.24 |
 With the family | 2601 | 75.76 |
Dietary Diversity | ||
 Adequate | 1197 | 34.87 |
 Inadequate | 2236 | 65.13 |
Child feeding style | ||
 With the family | 1395 | 40.64 |
 Separately | 2038 | 59.36 |
Food source | ||
 Home garden | 2483 | 73.83 |
 Market | 949 | 79.95 |
Frequency of food buying (n = 1180) | ||
 Daily | 20 | 1.69 |
 2–3 times weekly | 95 | 8.05 |
 Weekly | 269 | 22.80 |
 Once in two weeks | 180 | 15.25 |
 Monthly | 616 | 52.21 |
 We didn’t buy | 20 | 1.69 |
Reasons not to buy food (n = 11) | ||
 Too costly | 4 | 36.36 |
 The money sent for other purpose | 3 | 27.27 |
 The food is unavailable | 2 | 18.18 |
 Others | 2 | 18.18 |
Distance between home and the market (n = 1183) | ||
  < 1 km | 589 | 49.79 |
 1-4 km | 216 | 18.26 |
 5-10 km | 27 | 2.28 |
 11-20 km | 95 | 8.03 |
 21-30 km | 89 | 7.52 |
 31-40 km | 114 | 9.64 |
 41-50 km | 30 | 2.54 |
  > 50 km | 23 | 1.96 |
Transportation to market | ||
 On foot | 1173 | 99.66 |
 Others (car and animals) | 4 | 0. 34 |
Food preference/ Food choice to their children | ||
 No | 2794 | 81.40 |
 Yes | 639 | 18.60 |
Types of Food preference to their children (n = 639)* | ||
 Fruit and vegetables | 325 | 50.8 |
 Meat and fish | 447 | 69.95 |
 Egg, milk and milk product | 476 | 74.49 |
 Honey | 262 | 41.00 |
 Packed foods | 306 | 47.89 |
 Cereals and food make from it | 582 | 91.08 |