Dietary habits associated with growth development of children aged < 5 years in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso

Mank, Isabel; Vandormael, Alain; Traoré, Issouf; Ouédraogo, Windpanga Aristide; Sauerborn, Rainer; Danquah, Ina

doi:10.1186/s12937-020-00591-3

Table 1 General characteristics of children aged < 5 years (n = 514) by sex in the Nouna HDSS

From: Dietary habits associated with growth development of children aged < 5 years in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso

Characteristics N		Nouna HDSS		Boys		Girls
		%	n	%	n	%	n
		100.00	514	49.61	255	50.39	259
Demographics
Childrens’ age^a	Months	35.87	13.90	36.17	13.64	35.57	14.18
Region	Toni	46.69	240	46.67	119	46.72	121
	Cissé	17.12	88	14.90	38	19.31	50
	Kodougou	11.87	61	13.33	34	10.42	27
	Nouna	14.40	74	15.29	39	13.51	35
	Sono	9.92	51	9.80	25	10.04	26
Socio-economics
Mothers’ age^a	Years	29.56	6.83	29.36	6.71	29.16	6.96
Mothers’ education	Illiterate	78.00	397	78.97	199	77.04	198
	Literate	4.91	25	5.56	14	4.28	11
	Primary	13.36	68	12.70	32	14.01	36
	Secondary	3.73	19	2.78	7	4.67	12
Household heads’ education	Illiterate	74.56	381	71.94	182	77.13	199
	Literate	12.13	62	13.83	35	10.47	27
	Primary	10.96	56	11.07	28	10.85	28
	Secondary	2.35	12	3.16	8	1.55	4
Mothers’ ethnicity	Dafing	30.41	156	30.98	79	29.84	77
	Bwaba	22.61	116	22.75	58	22.48	58
	Mossi	20.47	105	20.39	52	20.54	53
	Peul	20.47	105	19.22	49	21.71	56
	Other	6.04	31	6.67	17	5.53	14
Household heads’ ethnicity	Dafing	30.35	156	30.59	78	30.12	78
	Bwaba	22.96	118	22.75	58	23.17	60
	Mossi	18.09	93	18.04	46	18.15	47
	Peul	22.76	117	22.35	57	23.17	60
	Other	5.84	30	6.27	16	5.40	14
Mothers' marriage	Polygame	34.50	177	34.90	89	34.11	88
Household heads’ marriage	Polygame	36.77	189	36.08	92	37.45	97
Mothers’ occupation	Housewives	92.16	470	93.31	237	91.02	233
Household heads’ occupation	Farmers	84.86	426	87.95	219	81.82	207
Wealth index (IWI)	Poorest	21.57	107	23.08	57	20.08	50
	Poor	18.75	93	23.48	58	14.06	35
	Middle	19.56	97	19.03	47	20.08	50
	Rich	24.60	122	22.67	56	26.51	66
	Richest	15.52	77	11.74	29	19.28	48
Household size^a		12.30	6.45	12.03	6.40	12.57	6.49
Siblings aged <5 years^a		2.74	1.70	2.65	1.70	2.82	1.70
Clinical
Birth weight^a	Gramm	3056	520	3081	533	3031	506
Low birth weight	< 2500 g	12.99	53	13.17	27	12.81	26
Exclusive breastfeeding	Yes	38.91	200	40.78	104	37.07	96
Diarrhea the last 2 weeks	Yes	19.30	99	22.35	57	16.28	42
Child sick last 2 weeks	Yes	41.52	213	43.53	111	39.53	102
Child anthropometry
Height^a	cm	89.72	10.11	90.52	9.53	88.94	10.61
Weight^a	kg	12.37	2.72	12.68	2.54	12.06	2.86
Height-for-Age (HAZ)^a	Z-score	−1.27	1.34	−1.28	1.41	−1.26	1.27
Weight-for-Height (WHZ)^a	Z-score	−0.47	1.02	−0.43	1.08	−0.51	0.96
Stunting	< −2 SD	25.64	131	27.38	69	23.94	62
Wasting	< −2 SD	6.68	34	7.14	18	6.23	16

^a Mean and SD

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