South Vietnamese Rural Mothers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Child Health Care

Table 1

Basic characteristics related to all interviewees.

Variable	Number of interviewees; = 600	Percentage
Sex
Female	596	99.3
Male	4	0.7
Age (years)
Number of mothers, 28 years old (mean age)	54	9.0
Eldest person interviewed (71 years old)
Youngest one interviewed (17 years old)
Education level
Illiteracy	41	6.8
Primary school	207	34.5
Secondary school	214	35.7
High school	123	20.5
College/university	15	2.5
Occupation
Farmer	304	50.7
Housework	150	25.0
Business person	73	12.2
Worker	26	4.3
Teacher	19	3.2
Health staff	6	1.0
Economic status
Poor	147	24.5
Average	429	71.5
Rich	17	2.8
Unknown	7	1.2
Marital status
Single	2	0.3
Married	591	98.5
Divorced	4	0.7
Widowed	3	0.5
Siblings in a family
01 child	215	35.8
02 children	281	36.8
03 children	84	14.0
04 children	20	3.3

Definition of household’s economic status: based on Prime Minister’s official paper number 09/2011/QĐ-TTg, dated November 30, 2011, for a standard to define a poor household in Vietnam: a rural household’s income  is less than 400,000 VND per month (equivalence is 20 USD) or 4,800,000 VND per year (about 230 USD); an urban household’s income is less than 500,000 VND per month (equivalence is 24 USD) or 6,00,000 VND per year (about 286 USD).