Risk factors for childhood malnutrition in Roma settlements in Serbia

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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of Roma Children under 5 in Roma Settlements, UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Serbia, 2005 (n = 1192).

Characteristic	n	%
Type of settlement
Urban	872	73.2
Rural	320	26.9
Region
Vojvodina	291	24.4
Belgrade	289	24.2
Central Serbia	612	51.3
Child's age
< 6 months	124	10.4
6-11 months	117	9.8
12-23 months	272	22.8
24-35 months	231	19.4
36-47 months	221	18.5
48-59 months	227	19.0
Child's sex
Male	625	51.3
Female	593	48.7
Mother's education
Primary or less	1170	96.0
Secondary	48	4.0
Mother's literacy^a
Cannot read sentence	416	33.5
Can read part of sentence	393	14.5
Can read entire sentence	351	51.9
Father's education
Primary or less	1017	83.9
Secondary	125	10.2
Father not in household	73	6.0
Mother's marital status
Currently married/in	1101	95.2
union	53	4.6
Formerly married/in union	3	0.3
Never married
Mother's age at first marriage^b
15 years or less	317	40.5
16-17 years	253	30.7
18 years or more	236	28.8
Religion of head of household
Orthodox	596	50.0
Catholic	18	1.5
Islamic	508	42.6
Protestant	29	2.4
No religion	30	2.5
Other	11	0.9
Mother tongue of head of household
Serbian	91	7.6
Bosnian	5	0.4
Romani	1039	87.2
Albanian	48	4.0
Other	9	0.8

^a Of women with less than secondary education (n = 1017); numbers do not add to 1017 due to missing values
^b Of women ever married (n = 1154); numbers do not add to 1154 due to missing values

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