Table 1 Socio-demographic and socio economic related variables of mothers who had Children of 6–23 months age in rural community of Soro district, South Ethiopia, August, 2015 to September, 2015
Variable n = 543 | Categories | Frequency | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
Mothers’ age | 15–24 | 76 | 14.0 |
25–34 | 402 | 74.0 | |
35–40 | 65 | 12.0 | |
Marital status | Married | 537 | 98.9 |
Unmarried | 2 | 0.4 | |
Separated/Divorced | 3 | 0.6 | |
Widowed | 1 | 0.2 | |
Religion | Protestant | 502 | 92.4 |
Orthodox | 9 | 1.7 | |
Catholic | 30 | 5.5 | |
Muslim | 2 | 0.4 | |
Ethnicity | Hadiya | 526 | 96.9 |
Kambata | 11 | 2.0 | |
Amhara | 3 | 0.6 | |
Gurage | 1 | 0.2 | |
Others | 2 | 0.4 | |
Mothers’ educational status | No education | 254 | 46.8 |
Read and write | 46 | 8.5 | |
Primary | 186 | 34.3 | |
Secondary | 52 | 9.6 | |
Tertiary | 5 | 0.9 | |
Mothers’ occupation | House wife | 409 | 75.3 |
Farmer | 48 | 8.8 | |
Government employer | 5 | 0.9 | |
Small business | 65 | 12.0 | |
Causal work | 16 | 2.9 | |
Husbands’ Occupation(n = 539) | Not employed | 20 | 3.7 |
Farmer | 404 | 75 | |
Employed | 19 | 3.5 | |
Small scale trading | 81 | 15 | |
Casual labour | 11 | 2.0 | |
Daily labour | 4 | 0.8 | |
Monthly income | <=500 | 299 | 55.1 |
501–1000 | 160 | 29.5 | |
1001–1500 | 25 | 4.6 | |
1501–2000 | 10 | 1.8 | |
2001 and above | 9 | 1.7 | |
Don’t know | 40 | 7.4 | |
Source of monthly income | Farming | 434 | 79.9 |
Formal employment | 12 | 2.2 | |
Casual labour | 24 | 4.4 | |
Small scale business | 73 | 13.4 | |
Head of household | Husband | 522 | 96.1 |
Wife | 16 | 2.9 | |
Oldest brother/sister | 4 | 0.7 | |
Others | 1 | 0.2 |