Relationships between Wasting and Stunting and Their Concurrent Occurrence in Ghanaian Preschool Children

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of sample ().

Characteristics	Frequency ()	Percentage (%)
Age of children (months)
0–5	312	11.5
6–11	288	10.6
12–23	580	21.3
24–35	552	20.3
36–47	505	18.6
48–59	483	17.8
Gender of child
Male	1407	51.7
Female	1313	48.3
Educational level of mothers
No education	975	35.8
Primary	565	20.8
Secondary	1085	39.9
Higher	95	3.5
Household wealth index
Poorest	889	32.7
Poorer	575	21.1
Middle	516	19.0
Richer	404	14.9
Richest	336	12.4
Occupation of respondent
Not working	483	17.8
Professional/technical/managerial	99	3.6
Clerical	16	0.6
Sales	849	31.3
Agricultural—self-employed	878	32.3
Agricultural—employee	24	0.9
Services	23	0.8
Skilled manual labour	320	11.8
Unskilled manual labour	28	1.0