Research Article
Magnitude of Low Birth Weight and Associated Factors among Newborns Delivered in Dangla Primary Hospital, Amhara Regional State, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of women delivered at Dangla Primary Hospital, Awi Zone, Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017 (n=232).
| Variables | Category | Frequency (N) | Percentage (%) |
| Age | 15-25 | 78 | 33.6 | 26-36 | 101 | 43.5 | 37-47 | 40 | 17.3 | >47 | 13 | 5.6 | Religion | Muslim | 54 | 23.3 | Orthodox | 137 | 59.1 | Protestant | 33 | 14.2 | Catholic | 8 | 3.4 | Marital status | Married | 181 | 78 | Single | 21 | 9.1 | Divorced | 20 | 8.6 | Widowed | 10 | 4.3 | Educational status | Can’t read and write | 44 | 18.9 | Can read and write | 188 | 81.1 | Monthly income | <620 | 15 | 6.5 | 621-1500 | 30 | 12.9 | 1501-3000 | 66 | 28.4 | >3001 | 121 | 52.2 | Occupation | Housewife | 57 | 24.6 | Merchant | 44 | 19 | G /employed | 47 | 20.3 | | Daily labor | 10 | 4.2 | Farmer | 74 | 31.9 | Ethnicity | Oromo | 14 | 6 | Tigre | 8 | 3.4 | Amhara | 204 | 87 | Others | 6 | 3.6 | Residence | Urban | 122 | 52.6 | Rural | 110 | 47.4 |
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