Background characteristics | Child’s stool disposal practice | Total | Percent | X2 (df), P-value | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Safe | Unsafe | ||||
Region | |||||
 Tigray | 88 | 216 | 304 | 7.3 | 291.9 (10), p-value = 0.000 |
 Affar | 10 | 30 | 40 | 1.0 | |
 Amhara | 261 | 499 | 760 | 18.3 | |
 Oromiya | 532 | 1316 | 1848 | 44.6 | |
 Somali | 42 | 129 | 171 | 4.1 | |
 Benishangul | 22 | 22 | 44 | 1.1 | |
 SNNP | 508 | 328 | 836 | 20.2 | |
 Gambela | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0.2 | |
 Harari | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0.2 | |
 Addis Ababa | 50 | 55 | 105 | 2.5 | |
 Dire Dawa | 10 | 8 | 18 | 0.4 | |
Place of residence | |||||
 Urban | 297 | 201 | 498 | 12.0 | 125.5 (1), p-value = 0.000 |
 Rural | 1233 | 2414 | 3647 | 88.0 | |
Mother educational level | |||||
 No education | 801 | 1699 | 2500 | 60.3 | 91.3 (3), p-value = 0.000 |
 Primary | 535 | 744 | 1279 | 30.9 | |
 Secondary | 120 | 134 | 254 | 6.1 | |
 Higher | 74 | 38 | 112 | 2.7 | |
Religion (n = 4144) | |||||
 Orthodox | 502 | 902 | 1407 | 34.0 | 168.4 (5), p-value = 0.000 |
 Catholic | 12 | 29 | 41 | 1.0 | |
 Protestant | 469 | 389 | 858 | 20.7 | |
 Muslin | 515 | 1211 | 1726 | 41.7 | |
 Traditional | 11 | 59 | 70 | 1.7 | |
 Other | 16 | 26 | 42 | 1.0 | |
Household wealth index (n = 4144) | |||||
 Poorest | 171 | 740 | 911 | 22.0 | 247.3(4), p-value = 0.000 |
 Poorer | 274 | 629 | 903 | 21.8 | |
 Middle | 381 | 500 | 881 | 21.3 | |
 Richer | 345 | 398 | 743 | 17.9 | |
 Richest | 358 | 348 | 706 | 17.0 | |
Listening to radio | |||||
 Yes | 529 | 601 | 1130 | 27.3 | 65.4(1), p-value = 0.000 |
 No | 1001 | 2014 | 3015 | 72.7 | |
Watching television | |||||
 Yes | 417 | 345 | 763 | 18.4 | 127.4(1), p-value = 0.000 |
 No | 1112 | 2270 | 3382 | 81.6 | |
Reading the newspaper or magazine | |||||
 Yes | 160 | 125 | 285 | 6.9 | 48.5(1), p-value = 0.000 |
 No | 1370 | 2490 | 3860 | 93.1 | |
Sex of child (n = 4144) | |||||
 Male | 697 | 1283 | 1980 | 47.8 | 4.6(1), p-value = 0.039 |
 Female | 832 | 1332 | 2164 | 52.2 | |
Diarrhea in the last two weeks (n = 4129) | |||||
 Yes | 305 | 365 | 670 | 16.2 | 25.0(1), p-value = 0.000 |
 No | 1222 | 2237 | 3459 | 83.8 | |
Toilet facility | |||||
 Improveda | 216 | 203 | 419 | 10.1 | 42.8(1), p-value = 0.000 |
 Unimproved | 1314 | 2412 | 3726 | 89.9 | |
Source of drinking water | |||||
 Improvedb | 966 | 1364 | 2330 | 56.2 | 47.5(1), p-value = 0.000 |
 Unimproved | 563 | 1251 | 1815 | 43.8 | |
Age of the child (n = 4144) | |||||
 0–5 months | 356 | 831 | 1187 | 28.6 | 36.6(3), p-value = 0.000 |
 6–11 months | 438 | 621 | 1059 | 25.6 | |
 12–17 months | 412 | 672 | 1084 | 26.2 | |
 18–23 months | 323 | 491 | 814 | 19.6 | |
Mother’s age | |||||
 15–24 | 373 | 842 | 1215 | 29.3 | 28.8(2), p-value = 0.000 |
 25–34 | 839 | 1267 | 2106 | 50.8 | |
  > 34 | 318 | 506 | 824 | 19.9 |