Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women attending antenatal care clinic at Gedo hospital west shewa, Oromia, Ethiopia, March 2014 (n = 299)
variable | frequency | Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|
Age of women | 18–27 | 163 | 54.5 |
28–37 | 113 | 37.8 | |
38–50 | 23 | 7.7 | |
Religion | Protestant | 188 | 62.9 |
Orthodox | 92 | 30.8 | |
Others | 19 | 6.4 | |
Marital status of women | married | 280 | 93.6 |
Single or separated | 19 | 6.4 | |
Educational status of women | Illiterate/no education | 142 | 47.5 |
primary school education | 85 | 28.4 | |
secondary school | 44 | 14.7 | |
college diploma & above | 28 | 9.4 | |
Occupation of women | housewife | 218 | 72.9 |
trading/merchant | 34 | 11.4 | |
employee | 26 | 8.7 | |
day laborer | 21 | 7.0 |