Table 3 Magnitude of women’s empowerment and its dimensions (n = 582)
From: Women empowerment and childhood stunting: evidence from rural northwest Ethiopia
Variable | Class | Number | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mothers’ empowerment level | Low | 114 | 19.6 | |
Moderate | 312 | 53.6 | ||
High | 156 | 26.8 | ||
Mothers’ empowerment dimensions | Household decision-making | No participation | 43 | 7.4 |
Participate in one or two decisions | 110 | 18.9 | ||
Participate in all three decisions | 429 | 73.7 | ||
Educational status | No education | 282 | 48.5 | |
Primary level education | 196 | 33.7 | ||
Secondary and above | 104 | 17.9 | ||
Cash earnings | Yes | 175 | 30.1 | |
No | 407 | 69.9 | ||
House/land ownership | Yes | 406 | 69.8 | |
No | 176 | 30.2 | ||
Membership in community groups | Yes | 166 | 28.5 | |
No | 416 | 71.5 | ||