Table 3 Percentage of adolescents age 10–19 with anaemia, by area of residence, agro ecology and selected background characteristics, Ethiopia 2015
From: Anaemia among adolescent girls in three districts in Ethiopia
Background Characteristics | Anaemia status by hemoglobin level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Any | Mild | Moderate | Severe | |
< 12.0 g/dl | 11.0–11.9 g/dl | 8.0–10.9 g/dl | < 8.0 g/dl | |
District | ||||
Debrelibanos | 38.3 | 30.6 | 7.3 | 0.5 |
Damotegale | 24.0 | 22.2 | 1.6 | 0.2 |
Laygaynt | 25.2 | 22.4 | 2.5 | 0.2 |
Place of residence | ||||
Rural | 31.6 | 27.2 | 4.0 | 0.2 |
Urban | 19.0] | 15.8 | 2.8 | 0.4 |
Reported age (years) | ||||
10–14 | 31.3 | 27.1 | 4.0 | 0.1 |
15–17 | 28.1 | 24.1 | 3.7 | 0.3 |
18–19 | 17.2 | 13.1 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
Schooling | ||||
In school | 29.2 | 25.6 | 3.3 | 0.3 |
Out of school | 28.7 | 21.0 | 7.2 | 0.6 |
Smoking status | ||||
Smokes cigarettes | 21.7 | 17.4 | 4.3 | – |
Does not smoke | 29.3 | 25.2 | 3.8 | 0.3 |
Household food insecurity | ||||
Food secured | 26.8 | 23.4 | 3.2 | 0.3 |
Mildly food insecured | 28.5 | 22.6 | 5.1 | 0.7 |
Moderately food insecured | 34.4 | 30.3 | 3.9 | 0.3 |
Severely food insecured | 27.6 | 23.7 | 3.9 | – |
Dietary Diversity | ||||
Low | 31.3 | 27.1 | 3.9 | 0.3 |
Medium | 28.1 | 23.4 | 4.3 | 0.4 |
High | 23.9 | 23.3 | 1.3 | – |
Agro ecology | ||||
Highlands | 31.6 | 26.6 | 4.7 | 0.3 |
midlands | 21.8 | 21.8 | – | – |
lowlands | 23.9 | 20.1 | 3.0 | 0.7 |
Wealth quintile | ||||
Lowest (poorest) | 32.5 | 28.0 | 4.1 | 0.4 |
Second (poor) | 31.9 | 28.1 | 3.8 | – |
Middle | 30.8 | 26.3 | 4.5 | – |
Forth (Rich) | 29.0 | 24.8 | 3.4 | 0.8 |
Highest (Richest) | 21.6 | 18.1 | 3.0 | 0.4 |
Total | 29.2[24.4,34.5] | 25.2[21.5,29.2] | 3.8[2.5,5.7] | 0.3[0.1,0.8] |