Effect of mother’s education on child’s nutritional status in the slums of Nairobi

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Characteristics of children aged between 0–42 months in the study

Factor	Category	Stunted (%)	Number of Subjects	%
Child’s Sex	Male	44.2	2410	50.5
Child’s Sex	Female	34.2	2360	49.5
Slum	Korogocho	40.9	2490	52.2
Slum	Viwandani	37.5	2280	47.8
Mother’s Education level	Primary and below	43.1	2,961	76.7
Mother’s Education level	Secondary +	36.9	897	23.3
Mother's age	15-19	39.9	406	10.3
	20-24	40.1	1415	35.9
	25-29	42.2	1185	30.1
	30-34	42.9	564	14.3
	35 >	45.6	373	9.5
Mother’s Marital Status	Currently in union	37.8	3954	82.9
	Ever in union	48.3	375	7.9
	Never married	44.8	440	9.2
Pregnancy Intentions	Wanted now (Ref)	35.2	2378	50.0
	Wanted later	43.5	1773	37.3
	Not at all	42.3	608	12.8
Ante-natal Visits	Less than 4	38.7	2460	54.9
Ante-natal Visits	4 or more	38.5	2018	45.1
Place of delivery	Health Facility	37.4	3390	71.2
	TBA & Home	44.6	1239	26.0
	Others(enroute to hospital)	34.9	132	2.8
Mother’s Parity	1 birth	34.5	1633	34.3
	2 births	40.6	1325	27.8
	3 and above	42.5	1806	37.9
Child’s birth weight	Less than 2500	61.8	220	7.0
Child’s birth weight	Above 2500	36.2	2940	93.0
Knowledge when to introduce other foods	No	41.3	1477	31.0
Knowledge when to introduce other foods	Yes	38.4	3293	69.0
Social Economic Status	Lowest	42.5	812	27.3
	Middle	44.5	991	33.3
	Highest	39.7	1172	39.4
Mother’s Ethnicity	Kikuyu	43.2	1057	26.7
	Luhya	39	689	17.4
	Luo	41.5	768	19.4
	Kamba	42.5	835	21.1
	Others	40.6	606	15.3

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