Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of mothers who have infants aged 6 to 12 months, in Wolkite town, South, Ethiopia, 2020
Variables | Categories | Employment status of the mother | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employed (N = 241) | Unemployed (N = 244) | Overall (N = 485) | |||||
Frequency | Percent (%) | Frequency | Percent (%) | Frequency | Percent (%) | ||
Maternal age in years | 15–19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.4 |
20–24 | 36 | 14.9 | 52 | 21.3 | 88 | 18.1 | |
25–29 | 92 | 38.2 | 87 | 35.7 | 179 | 36.9 | |
30–34 | 77 | 32 | 64 | 26.2 | 141 | 29.1 | |
≥ 35 | 36 | 14.9 | 39 | 16 | 75 | 15.5 | |
Religion | Muslim | 116 | 48.1 | 119 | 48.88 | 235 | 48.5 |
Orthodox Christian | 81 | 33.6 | 72 | 29.5 | 153 | 31.5 | |
Catholic | 12 | 5 | 9 | 3.7 | 21 | 4.3 | |
Protestant | 31 | 12.9 | 42 | 17.2 | 73 | 15.1 | |
Others* | 1 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.8 | 3 | 0.6 | |
Ethnicity | Guraghe | 127 | 52.7 | 123 | 50.4 | 250 | 51.5 |
Kebena | 40 | 16.6 | 44 | 18.0 | 84 | 17.3 | |
Amhara | 38 | 15.8 | 35 | 14.3 | 73 | 15.1 | |
Oromo | 14 | 5.8 | 15 | 6.1 | 29 | 6.0 | |
Others** | 22 | 9.1 | 27 | 11.1 | 49 | 10.1 | |
Maternal education | Can’t read and write | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4.1 | 10 | 2.1 |
Can read and write | 3 | 1.2 | 18 | 7.4 | 21 | 4.3 | |
Primary education | 14 | 5.8 | 75 | 30.7 | 89 | 18.4 | |
Secondary education | 35 | 14.5 | 119 | 48.8 | 154 | 31.8 | |
Collage education and above | 189 | 78.4 | 22 | 8.0 | 211 | 43.5 | |
Marital status | Married | 211 | 87.6 | 222 | 91.0 | 433 | 89.3 |
Widowed | 4 | 1.7 | 1 | 0.4 | 5 | 1.0 | |
Divorced | 13 | 5.4 | 11 | 4.5 | 24 | 5.0 | |
Separated | 13 | 5.4 | 10 | 4.1 | 23 | 4.7 | |
Monthly household income in ETB | ≤ 2000 | 28 | 11.6 | 71 | 29.1 | 99 | 20.4 |
2001–3500 | 52 | 21,6 | 93 | 38.1 | 145 | 29.9 | |
> 3500 | 161 | 66.8 | 80 | 32.8 | 241 | 49.7 | |