Dietary Diversity Feeding Practice and Its Associated Factors among Infants and Young Children Aged between 6 and 23 Months in Birbir Town, Southern Ethiopia

Table 2

Health-related characteristics of children (N = 334).

Variable		Number	Percent
Age of the child (in months)	6–11	132	39.5
	12–23 months	202	60.5
Sex	Male	184	55.1
	Female	150	44.9
Breastfeeding child at the time of the survey	Yes	317	94.9
	No	17	5.1
Birth order	First	148	44.3
	Second	106	31.7
	Third and above	80	24.0
Birth interval	<24 months	16	8.6
	≥24 months	170	91.4
Morbidity for the last 2 weeks	Yes	90	26.9
	No	244	73.1
Type of morbidity	Diarrhea	28	31.1
	Vomiting	24	26.6
	Fever with chills	20	22.2
	Other	18	20.1
Child growth monitoring follow-up	Yes	262	78.4
	No	72	21.6
Vaccination history	Vaccinated	328	98.2
	Not vaccinated	6	1.8