Research Article
Factors Affecting Choice of Childbirth Place among Childbearing Age Women in Western Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents in Jimma Arjo District, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2018.
| Variables | Frequency () | Percent |
| Age | 20-24 | 172 | 34 | 25-29 | 123 | 24.3 | 30-34 | 88 | 17.4 | 35-39 | 65 | 12.8 | ≥40 | 58 | 11.5 | Marital status | Married | 399 | 78.8 | Single | 8 | 1.6 | Divorced | 92 | 18.2 | Widowed | 7 | 1.4 | Residence | Rural | 390 | 77.1 | Urban | 116 | 22.9 | Religion | Protestant | 308 | 60.8 | Orthodox | 182 | 36 | Muslim | 16 | 3.2 | Ethnicity | Oromo | 453 | 89.5 | Amhara | 44 | 8.7 | Gurage | 5 | 1.0 | Tigre | 4 | 0.8 | Occupation | Housewife | 302 | 59.7 | Governmental worker | 58 | 11.5 | Merchant | 75 | 14.8 | Farmer | 50 | 9.9 | Daily labor | 15 | 3.0 | Student | 6 | 1.2 | Mother education | | | Cannot read and write | 151 | 29.8 | Read and write | 168 | 33.2 | Primarily education | 36 | 7.1 | Secondary education | 90 | 17.8 | Diploma and above | 61 | 12.1 |
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