Research Article
Prevalence of Anemia and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in an Urban Area of Eastern Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant women at Gode town, Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia, May 2013.
| | Variables | Frequency () Number (%) |
| | Age of the mother | | | ≤20 | 62 (10.7) | | 21–25 | 137 (23.7) | | 26–30 | 187 (32.4) | | 31–35 | 122 (21.1) | | >35 | 69 (12.0) | | Marital status | | | Married | 561 (97.2) | | Divorced | 13 (2.3) | | Widowed | 3 (0.5) | | Religion | | | Muslim | 572 (99.1) | | Christian | 5 (0.9) | | Ethnicity | | | Somali | 570 (98.8) | | Amhara | 5 (0.9) | | Oromo | 1 (0.2) | | Others | 1 (0.2) | | Educational status | | | Unable to read and write | 476 (82.5) | | Read and write only | 31 (5.4) | | Primary school (1–8) | 37 (6.4) | | Secondary school | 8 (1.4) | | College and above | 25 (4.3) | | Occupation | | | Housewife | 499 (86.5) | | Government employee | 34 (5.9) | | Business | 44 (7.6) | | Family Size | | | <5 | 134 (23.2) | | 5–7 | 211 (36.6) | | ≥8 | 232 (40.2) | | Age at marriage | | | <16 | 198 (34.3) | | 16–18 | 283 (49.0) | | ≥19 | 96 (16.6) | | Source of income | | | Salary | 301 (52.2) | | Business | 101 (17.5) | | Remittance | 52 (9.0) | | Others | 123 (21.3) | | Wealth index (Quintiles) | | | Lowest | 114 (19.8) | | Second | 127 (22.0) | | Middle | 114 (19.8) | | Fourth | 104 (18.0) | | Highest | 118 (20.5) |
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