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Table 2 Low Birth Weight disaggregated by the sample characteristics, 2016 EDHS (N = 2110)

From: Prevalence of and socioeconomic gradient in low birth weight in Ethiopia: further analysis of the 2016 demographic and health survey data

Characteristics

Categories

Weighted percentage (%)

Total low birth weight percentage

13.2 (10.73, 15.65)

Wealth index

Poorest

11.3 (5.12, 23.3)

Poorer

18.7 (11.44, 29.1)

Middle

17.3 (10.9, 26.5)

Rich

15.7 (10, 23.8)

Richest

10.5 (7.9, 13.9)

Education of the mother

No education

18.3 (13.5, 24.3)

Primary

11 (8.02, 14.9)

Secondary

7.7 (4.9, 12)

Higher

15.4 (9.6, 23.8)

Ethnicity

Amhara

15.8 (10.74, 22.6)

Oromo

16.3 (11.28, 23)

Tigrie

6.5 (4.32, 9.8)

Others

11.6 (8.73, 15.31)

Age at giving birth

14–19

19.5 (12.1, 30)

20–34

12.6 (10.2, 15.5)

> = 35

11.6 (5.8, 22)

Maternal occupation

Not working

13.3 (10, 17.3)

Professional

10.3 (3.5, 27)

Clerical

2 (0.3, 13.6)

Sales

11 (6.8, 17)

Agriculture-employee

20.3 (13.6, 29)

Services

5.5 (2.3, 12.8)

Skilled manual

28.2 (12.2, 52.6)

Unskilled manual

10.8 (3.6, 28.2)

Others

8.2 (3.2, 19.3)