Variables | Categories | Frequency | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Age category | 15–24 | 40 | 5.0 |
24–35 | 506 | 62.7 | |
35–48 | 261 | 32.3 | |
Residency | Semi-Urban | 73 | 9.1 |
Rural | 734 | 90.9 | |
Occupation | Housewife | 693 | 85.9 |
Daily laborer | 8 | 7.0 | |
Farmer | 37 | 32.5 | |
Government employee | 2 | 1.8 | |
Private business | 47 | 41.2 | |
Merchant | 15 | 13.2 | |
Other | 5 | 4.4 | |
Ethnicity | Gamo | 687 | 85.1 |
Wolayta | 14 | 1.7 | |
Zeyse | 93 | 11.5 | |
Othera | 13 | 1.6 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 244 | 30.2 |
Protestant | 546 | 67.7 | |
Traditional | 15 | 1.9 | |
Jehovah's Witness | 2 | 0.2 | |
Marital Status | Married | 804 | 99.6 |
Separated | 2 | 0.3 | |
Single | 1 | 0.1 | |
Educational statusb of the mothers | Illiterate | 565 | 70.0 |
Read and write | 3 | 0.4 | |
Elementary & Primary | 200 | 24.8 | |
Secondary & preparatory | 32 | 4.0 | |
Above grade 12 | 7 | 0.9 | |
Additional job than being housewife | No | 693 | 85.8 |
Yes | 114 | 14 | |
Education status2 of the Husbands (n = 804) | Illiterate | 489 | 60.8 |
Read and write | 10 | 1.2 | |
Elementary & Primary | 239 | 29.7 | |
Secondary & preparatory | 44 | 5.5 | |
Above grade 12 | 22 | 2.7 | |
Husbands’ occupation (n = 804) | Daily laborer | 71 | 8.8 |
Farmer | 637 | 79.2 | |
Government employee | 21 | 2.6 | |
Merchant | 36 | 4.5 | |
Private | 15 | 1.9 | |
Otherc | 24 | 3.0 | |
Wealth quintile* | 1st quantile | 163 | 20.2 |
2nd quantile | 160 | 19.8 | |
3rd quantile | 162 | 20.1 | |
4th quantile | 161 | 20.0 | |
5th quantile | 161 | 20.0 |