Research Article
Knowledge of Preconception Healthcare and Associated Factors: A Study among Mothers in Jinka Town, Southern Region, Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of the childbearing age group women in Jinka town, Southern Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 513).
| Characteristics | Frequency | Percentage |
| Age | 15–24 | 259 | 50.5 | 25–34 | 176 | 34.3 | 35–49 | 78 | 15.2 |
| Marital status | Married | 337 | 65.7 | Single | 135 | 26.3 | Divorced | 21 | 4.1 | Widowed | 20 | 3.9 |
| Maternal occupation status | Housewife | 208 | 40.5 | Civil servant | 76 | 14.8 | Merchant | 53 | 10.3 | Day labourer | 28 | 5.5 | Student | 137 | 26.7 | Others (private, jobless) | 11 | 2.1 |
| Maternal education status | No formal education | 68 | 13.3 | Primary school | 157 | 30.6 | Secondary school (9–12) | 155 | 30.2 | College and above | 133 | 25.9 |
| Husband’s education status | No formal education | 21 | 4.1 | Primary school | 85 | 16.6 | Secondary school (9–12) | 100 | 19.5 | College and above | 131 | 25.5% |
| Husband’s occupation | Government employee | 135 | 26.3 | Merchant | 87 | 17.0 | Day labourer | 63 | 12.3 | Farmer | 19 | 3.7 | Driver | 18 | 3.5 | Others | 15 | 2.9 |
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