Knowledge, Practice, and Availability of Iodized Salt and Associated Factors in Jibat Woreda, West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia

Table 1

Frequency distribution of sociodemographic characteristics of respondents ().

Variables	Frequency	Percentile
Age of the participant
<20	0	0%
20-40	264	73.9%
>40	93	26.1%
Marital status of household
Single	19	5.4%
Married	287	80.4%
Divorced	23	6.4%
Widowed	28	7.8%
Total number of household members
3	100	28.0%
3-5	129	36.1%
5	128	35.9%
Residence area
Rural	275	77.0%
Urban	82	23.0%
Level of education of mother
Cannot read and write	240	67.2%
Can read and write	55	15.4%
Grades 1-4	12	3.4%
Grade s5-8	8	2.2%
Grades 9-12	4	1.2%
Graduated	38	10.6%
Religion
Protestant	187	52.4%
Orthodox	138	38.7%
Muslim	2	0.6%
Others	30	8.3%
What is your ethnicity?
Oromo	295	82.6%
Amhara	46	12.9%
Tigre	2	0.6%
Gurage	13	3.6%
Kambata	1	0.3%
Household job
Farmer	204	57.1%
Business man	61	17.1%
Employed	29	8.1%
Student	24	6.8%
Others	39	10.9%
Average monthly income
	133	37.3%
101_500	110	30.8%
501_999	46	12.9%
	68	19.0%