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Table 2 Key characteristics of the participants*

From: Childhood stunting in Thailand: when prolonged breastfeeding interacts with household poverty

Factors

No (%)

Parental characteristics

 Maternal education

  No education

211 (3.0)

  Primary

1973 (28.3)

  Secondary

2709 (38.8)

  Diploma

791 (11.3)

  Bachelor’s degree

1201 (17.2)

  Master’s degree and above

97 (1.4)

 Maternal age at birth

   < 20 years

672 (9.8)

  20–29 years

2996 (43.9)

  30–39 years

2456 (36.0)

  40 years and above

701 (10.3)

 Number of ANC visits

   < 4 Times

65 (0.9)

   ≥ 4 Times

1892 (27.0)

  Cannot remember visit number

5061 (72.1)

 Currently breastfeeding

  Yes

750 (11.3)

  No

5887 (88.7)

 Duration of breastfeeding

   ≤ 12 months

4591 (69.2)

   > 12 months

2043 (30.8)

Child characteristics

 Perceived size of baby at birth

  Small

188 (2.7)

  Average

1503 (21.4)

  Large

341 (4.9)

  Cannot clearly determine the size

4986 (71.0)

 Child’s age (months)

  13–24 months

1696 (24.3)

  25–36 months

1836 (26.3)

  37–48 months

1791 (25.6)

  49–59 months

1662 (23.8)

 History of recent diarrhoea

  Yes

302 (4.3)

  No

6670 (95.7)

 Stunting

  No

5626 (85.9)

  Yes

925 (14.1)

Household level factors

 Wealth index

  Poorest

914 (13.1)

  Poorer

1182 (16.9)

  Middle

1537 (22.0)

  Richer

1735 (24.9)

  Richest

1610 (23.1)

Community level factors

 Type of residence

  Municipal

3695 (52.7)

  Non-municipal

3323 (47.3)

 Geographic zone

  Bangkok

654 (9.3)

  Central

1474 (21.0)

  Northern

1543 (22.0)

  Northeastern

1650 (23.5)

  Southern

1697 (24.2)

  1. Note:
  2. • As the volume of missing data in each variable was small, missing data were not reported in the table
  3. • The wealth index variable was analyzed by the NSO based on the full samples, while this study focused on household of over-12-month children. Thus, the proportion of our samples for each quintile was not exactly equal to 20%