From: Care-seeking behaviour among febrile children under five in Togo
Children who had fever in the two weeks before the survey | |
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N (%) | |
Age (months) | |
0–11 | 221 (16.3) |
12–23 | 359 (26.4) |
24–35 | 289 (21.3) |
36–47 | 269 (19.7) |
48–59 | 221 (16.3) |
Sex | |
Male | 694 (51.1) |
Female | 665 (48.9) |
Household head's sex | |
Male | 1151 (84.7) |
Female | 208 (15.3) |
Currently breastfeeding | |
No | 579 (42.6) |
Yes | 780 (57.4) |
Place of residence | |
Urban | 391 (28.7) |
Rural | 968 (71.3) |
Distance to the nearest health | |
Big problem | 479 (35.2) |
Not a big problem | 880 (64.8) |
Region | |
Lome commune | 256 (18.9) |
Maritime | 204 (15.1) |
Plateaux | 420 (30.0) |
Centrale | 126 (09.2) |
Kara | 134 (09.8) |
Savanes | 219 (17.0) |
Age of caregiver | |
15–24 | 305 (22.4) |
25–34 | 682 (50.2) |
35–49 | 372 (27.4) |
Caregivers' level of education | |
No education | 612 (45.1) |
Primary | 472 (34.7) |
Secondary and high | 275 (20.2) |
Wealth index | |
Poorest | 339 (25.0) |
Poorer | 314 (23.1) |
Middle | 279 (20.5) |
Richer | 238 (17.5) |
Richest | 189 (13.9) |
Marital status | |
Married | 1251 (92.1) |
Divorced/widowed | 63 (04.6) |
Single | 45 (03.3) |
Occupation | |
Farmer/trader | 960 (70.6) |
Government worker | 220 (16.2) |
Not working | 179 (13.2) |
Head of household's religion | |
Animist/traditionalist | 451 (33.2) |
Catholic | 251 (18.4) |
Muslim | 213 (15.6) |
Protestant and others christian | 444 (32.8) |
Ethnicity | |
Ewe/mina/ana-ife | 511 (37.6) |
Kabye/tem | 331 (24.3) |
Paragroma/akposso/akebou | 452 (33.3) |
Others | 65 (04.8) |