Research Article
Dietary Practice and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Misha Woreda, South Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant mothers in Misha woreda, 2019.
| Explanatory variables | Category | Frequency | Percent |
| Age | 18–26 | 296 | 47.9 | 27–35 | 258 | 41.7 | ≥36 | 64 | 10.4 |
| Religion | Protestant | 334 | 54.1 | Orthodox | 225 | 36.4 | Muslim | 46 | 7.4 | Catholic | 13 | 2.1 |
| Marital status | Married | 583 | 94.4 | Widowed | 25 | 4.0 | Divorced | 10 | 1.6 |
| Husband educational status | No formal education | 143 | 23.1 | Can read and write | 230 | 37.2 | Primary | 148 | 23.9 | Secondary and above | 97 | 15.7 |
| Husband occupation | Employed | 42 | 6.8 | Merchant | 48 | 7.7 | Daily labourer | 33 | 5.3 | Farmer | 495 | 80.2 |
| Maternal education | No formal education | 184 | 29.8 | Can read and write | 231 | 37.3 | Primary | 177 | 28.7 | Secondary and above | 26 | 4.2 |
| Maternal occupation | House wife | 486 | 78.7 | Government employed | 23 | 3.8 | Merchant | 48 | 7.7 | Daily laborer | 61 | 9.8 |
| Family size of respondents | ≤2 | 137 | 22.2 | 3-4 | 260 | 42.0 | ≥5 | 221 | 35.8 |
| Average monthly income (Ethiopian birr) | <2000.00 | 336 | 54.4 | 2000.00–4000.00 | 227 | 36.7 | >4000.00 | 55 | 8.9 |
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