Research Article
Knowledge of Pregnant Women on Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Meket District, Northeast Ethiopia
Table 1
Selected sociodemographic characteristics of respondents, Meket district, northeast Ethiopia, 2014 (
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| Variables | Frequency | Percent |
| Age (years) | | | 15–24 | 99 | 18.3 | 25–34 | 326 | 60.1 | 35–49 | 117 | 21.6 | Residence | | | Urban | 79 | 14.6 | Rural | 463 | 85.4 | Marital status | | | Married | 460 | 84.9 | Single | 27 | 5 | Divorced | 55 | 10.1 | Educational status | | | Unable to read and write | 176 | 32.5 | Able to read and write only | 196 | 36.2 | Primary | 127 | 23.4 | Secondary and above | 43 | 7.9 | Occupation | | | Housewife | 434 | 80.1 | Student | 26 | 4.8 | Merchant | 55 | 10.1 | Government employee | 27 | 5.0 | Income (ETB) | | | ≤450 | 458 | 84.5 | 451–999 | 77 | 14.2 | ≥1000 | 7 | 1.3 |
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