Deworming among preschool age children in sub-Saharan Africa: pooled prevalence and multi-level analysis

Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of the mothers/caregivers and the children in a study of deworming among preschool age children in sub-Saharan Africa

Variables	Categories	Weighted frequency (n)	Weighted percentage (%)
Socio-demographic characteristics and health service utilization of the mothers
Age of women (years)	15–19	46,327	24.05
	20–34	96,885	50.29
	35–49	49,440	25.66
Educational attainment of women	No education	80,195	41.63
	Primary education	59,819	31.05
	Secondary and above	52,639	27.32
Occupation of women	Not working	57,833	30.10
Occupation of women	Worked	134,819	69.90
Household family size	1–4	46,630	24.2
	5–10	119,501	62.03
	≥ 11	26,521	13.77
Media exposure	No	70,703	36.77
Media exposure	Yes	121,607	63.23
Wealth index	Poorer	84,006	43.61
	Middle	38,596	20.03
	Richer	70,050	36.36
Child related characteristics
Sex of child	Male	96,867	50.28
Sex of child	Female	95,785	49.72
Age of child	24–35 months	48,162	33.21
	36–47 months	48,936	33.74
	48–59 months	47,926	33.05
Vitamin A in the last 6 months	No	41,037	21.3
Vitamin A in the last 6 months	Yes	151,615	78.7
Diarrhea in 2 weeks	No	168,979	87.71
Diarrhea in 2 weeks	Yes	23,673	12.29
Community-level variables
Income level of the country	Lower	126,468	65.68
	Lower middle	50,948	26.46
	High middle	15,128	7.86
Survey year	< 2015	94,680	49.17
Survey year	≥ 2015	97,864	50.83
Residence	Urban	60,537	31.42
Residence	Rural	132,116	68.58
Region in SSA	Central Africa	34,571	17.95
	East Africa	75,313	39.11
	West Africa	78,178	40.6
	Southern Africa	4,483	2.33

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