Children who were vaccinated, breast fed and from low parity mothers live longer: A community based case-control study in Jimma, Ethiopia

Table 1 Socio demographic characteristics of the study participants and their care takers, Jimma town, Southwest Ethiopia, October-November 2004

Variable	Category	Number	%
Age of a child (months)	Neonate	14	4.7
	1-6	72	24.3
	7-11	50	16.9
	12-23	89	30.1
	23-59	71	24.0
Sex	male	170	57.4
	female	126	42.6
Religion	Orthodox	136	45.9
	Protestant	33	11.1
	Muslim	127	42.9
Ethnicity	Oromo	146	49.3
	Amhara	49	16.6
	Garage	19	6.4
	Dawro	34	11.5
	Yem	23	7.8
	Others	25	8.4
Wealth index	Poor	227	76.7
	Satisfied basic needs	69	23.3
level of education(mother)	illiterate	37	12.9
	primary	102	35.5
	secondary and Tertiary	148	51.6
Level of education(father) (father	illiterate	13	5.3
	primary	72	29.3
	Second and Tertiary	161	65.4
Age category(father)	15-29	77	26.0
	30-49	197	66.6
	50+	22	7.4
Age category (mother)	15-19	26	9.0
	20-29	193	66.8
	30 +	70	24.2

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