Nutritional Status of Children and Its Associated Factors in Selected Earthquake-Affected VDCs of Gorkha District, Nepal

Table 1

Background related characteristics of study population.

Characteristics	Number ()	Percentage
Age of the child
6-7 years	179	42.6
8-10 years	241	57.4
Sex
Male	198	47.1
Female	222	52.9
Education of child’s father
Illiterate	118	28.1
Informal education	131	31.2
Primary level	97	23.1
Secondary level	61	14.5
SLC and above	13	3.1
Education of child’s mother
Illiterate	179	42.6
Informal education	132	31.4
Primary level	56	13.3
Secondary level	43	10.2
SLC and above	10	2.4
Occupation of child’ s father
Service	38	9.0
Agriculture	187	44.5
Business	3	0.7
Foreign employee	65	15.5
Daily labor	114	27.1
Others	13	3.1
Occupation of child’ s mother
Homemaker	250	59.5
Agriculture	150	35.7
Service	9	2.1
Daily labor	6	1.4
Business	2	0.5
Others	3	0.7