Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of women with children 12–23 months of age in Ethiopia, 2016 (the relationship between Women’s autonomy 1909)
Characteristics | Category | Frequency | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
Region | Tigray | 218 | 11.42 |
Afar | 169 | 8.85 | |
Amhara | 178 | 9.32 | |
Oromia | 285 | 14.93 | |
Somali | 219 | 11.47 | |
Benishangul Gumz | 156 | 8.17 | |
SNNP | 226 | 11.84 | |
Gambella | 134 | 7.02 | |
Harari | 117 | 7.02 | |
Adiss Abeba | 99 | 5.19 | |
Dire Dawa | 108 | 5.66 | |
Residence | Urban | 398 | 20.85 |
Rural | 1511 | 79.15 | |
Age of women | 15–24 | 539 | 28.23 |
25–34 | 971 | 50.86 | |
35–49 | 399 | 20.9 | |
Educational level | No formal education | 1166 | 61.08 |
Primary education | 502 | 26.3 | |
Secondary education | 156 | 8.17 | |
Diploma and higher degree | 85 | 4.45 | |
Sex of child | Male | 936 | 49.03 |
Female | 973 | 50.97 | |
Wealth quintile | Poor | 975 | 51.07 |
Middle | 278 | 14.56 | |
Rich | 656 | 34.36 | |
Sex of house hold head | Male | 1497 | 78.4 |
Female | 412 | 21.6 | |
Marital status | Married | 1787 | 93.5 |
Other | 122 | 6.5 | |
Employment/occupation | Yes | 795 | 41.6 |
No | 1114 | 58.4 | |
Place of delivery | Health facility | 1064 | 55.74 |
Home | 845 | 44.26 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 602 | 31.53 |
Muslim | 913 | 47.83 | |
Protestant | 339 | 17.76 | |
Other | 55 | 2.88 | |
ANC follow up | Has ANC follow up | 1227 | 64.27 |
No ANC follow up | 682 | 35.73 | |
Birth order | 1 | 409 | 21.42 |
2–5 | 1022 | 53.5 | |
6+ | 478 | 25.04 | |
Postnatal care | Yes | 172 | 9.01 |
No | 1737 | 90.99 | |
Parity | 1 | 379 | 19.8 |
2–5 | 1,046 | 54.8 | |
6+ | 484 | 25.4 | |
Child size at birth | Small | 549 | 28.8 |
Average | 769 | 40.3 | |
Large | 591 | 30.9 |