Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of reproductive age group (15-49) women in Eritrean refugee camps in Tigray, north Ethiopia, 2016
Variables | Category | Number (n) | Percent (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Age of women (in years) | 15–19 | 41 | 10.25 |
20–24 | 84 | 21.00 | |
25–29 | 113 | 28.25 | |
30–34 | 83 | 20.75 | |
35 and above | 79 | 19.75 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 222 | 55.50 |
Muslim | 84 | 21.00 | |
Protestants | 38 | 9.50 | |
Catholic | 56 | 14.00 | |
Ethnicity | Tigrigna | 245 | 61.25 |
Saho | 83 | 20.75 | |
Kunama | 72 | 18.00 | |
Marital status | Married | 314 | 78.50 |
Single | 26 | 6.50 | |
Divorced | 36 | 9.00 | |
Widowed | 24 | 6.00 | |
Educational status | Illiterate | 78 | 19.50 |
Elementary school (1–8th) | 216 | 54.00 | |
Secondary school | 93 | 23.25 | |
Higher education | 13 | 3.25 | |
Occupational status | House wife | 277 | 69.25 |
Daily laborer | 82 | 20.50 | |
Student | 41 | 10.25 | |
Husband’s religion | Orthodox | 240 | 60.00 |
Muslim | 74 | 18.50 | |
Protestant | 30 | 7.50 | |
Catholic | 56 | 14,00 | |
Monthly household income (in Eriterian Nakfa) | < 400 | 45 | 11.25 |
401–745 | 64 | 16.00 | |
746–1220 | 113 | 28.25 | |
> 1220 | 178 | 44.50 |