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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of women attending reproductive and child health clinics for childhood immunizations

From: The potential role of mother-in-law in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a mixed methods study from the Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania

Background factor

N = 317

Total

(%)

Residence

  

   Rural

137

(43.2)

   Urban

180

(56.8)

Mothers age, y

  

   < = 25

163

(51.4)

   > 25

154

(48.6)

Marital status

  

   Married/cohabiting

288

(90.9)

   Single/divorced/widow

29

(9.1)

Religion

  

   Catholic

140

(44.2)

   Protestant

120

(37.9)

   Muslim/other

57

(18.0)

Ethnicity

  

   Chagga

192

(60.6)

   Pare/other

125

(39.4)

Education, mother

  

   0-7

165

(52.1)

   8 +

152

(47.9)

Head of household

  

   Father of the child

274

(86.4)

   Other

43

(13.6)