Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of women who came for ANC services, Adama, March 2010
Characteristics | Options | Frequency | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
Age in years | 15–20 | 95 | 22.5 |
21–25 | 175 | 41.4 | |
26–30 | 108 | 25.5 | |
31–40 | 44 | 10.4 | |
41 and above | 1 | 0.2 | |
Place of residence | Adama town | 361 | 85.3 |
Out of Adama town | 62 | 14.7 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 252 | 59.6 |
Muslim | 96 | 22.7 | |
Protestant | 67 | 15.8 | |
Catholic | 5 | 1.2 | |
Others | 3 | 0.7 | |
Marital status | Married | 397 | 93.9 |
Single | 16 | 3.8 | |
Divorced | 6 | 1.4 | |
Widowed | 2 | 0.5 | |
Separated | 2 | 0.5 | |
Maximum educational status | Illiterate | 60 | 14.2 |
Illiterate but able to write and read | 9 | 2.1 | |
Grade 1–4 | 101 | 23.9 | |
Grade 5–8 | 44 | 10.4 | |
Grade 9–12 | 164 | 38.8 | |
College and above | 45 | 10.6 | |
Ethnic origin | Oromo | 158 | 37.4 |
Amhara | 141 | 33.3 | |
Tigre | 28 | 6.6 | |
Gurage | 75 | 17.7 | |
Others | 21 | 5.0 | |
Occupational status | House wife | 268 | 63.4 |
Merchant | 40 | 9.5 | |
Government employee | 29 | 6.9 | |
Student | 23 | 5.4 | |
Daily laborer | 30 | 7.1 | |
Others | 33 | 7.8 |