Research Article
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Low Birth Weight and Preterm Delivery in the Ho Municipality of Ghana
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of women who delivered.
| Characteristics | Frequency (N = 680) | Percentage (%) |
| Age (years) | < 20 | 79 | 11.6 | 20–34 | 494 | 72.7 | 35–49 | 107 | 15.7 | Educational level | No formal education | 96 | 14.1 | Primary school | 82 | 12.0 | JSS/JHS/middle school | 239 | 35.2 | SHS/SSS/vocational | 147 | 21.6 | University | 116 | 17.1 | Occupation | Unemployed | 146 | 21.5 | Private sector | 431 | 63.4 | Public sector | 103 | 15.1 | Marital status | Single | 235 | 34.6 | Married | 445 | 65.4 | Religion | Christianity | 603 | 88.7 | Islam | 48 | 7.0 | African traditional religion | 29 | 4.3 | Tribe | Ewe | 484 | 71.2 | Akan | 65 | 9.6 | Guan | 58 | 8.5 | Others | 73 | 10.7 |
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