Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents in gedeo zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia 2020
Variable | Category | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Age of mothers | < 20 | 107 | 16.1 |
20–24 | 133 | 20.0 | |
25–29 | 315 | 47.4 | |
> = 30 | 110 | 16.5 | |
Marital status | Married | 499 | 75.0 |
Single | 59 | 8.9 | |
Divorced | 65 | 9.8 | |
Widowed | 42 | 6.3 | |
Ethnicity | Gedeo | 368 | 55.3 |
Oromo | 133 | 20.0 | |
Amhara | 85 | 12.8 | |
Other* | 79 | 11.9 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 219 | 32.9 |
Protestant | 304 | 45.7 | |
Muslim | 107 | 16.1 | |
other | 35 | 5.3 | |
Educational status | Cannot read and write | 375 | 56.4 |
read and write | 206 | 31.0 | |
Formal education | 84 | 12.6 | |
Occupation | Housewife | 412 | 62.0 |
Student | 27 | 4.1 | |
Governmental employer | 30 | 4.5 | |
Daily laborer | 108 | 16.2 | |
Merchant | 88 | 13.2 | |
Family size | < 4 | 351 | 52.8 |
> = 4 | 314 | 62.1 | |
Primary source of obtaining food | Farming | 223 | 33.5 |
Buying from market | 422 | 66.5 | |
Head of house hold (mothers) | Yes | 272 | 40.9 |
No | 393 | 59.1 | |
Antenatal clinic visits | Yes | 621 | 93.4 |
No | 44 | 6.6 | |
Postnatal care | Yes | 590 | 88.7 |
No | 75 | 11.3 | |
Place of delivery | Institution | 633 | 95.2 |
Home | 32 | 4.8 | |
Birth order | First order | 147 | 22.1 |
2–3 | 204 | 30.7 | |
> 3 | 314 | 47.2 | |
Household wealth | Poor | 220 | 33.1 |
middle | 223 | 33.5 | |
Rich | 222 | 33.4 |