Table 1 Socio-demographic profiles of respondents in selected hospitals, 2017 (n = 298)
From: Determinants of premature rupture of membrane in Southern Ethiopia, 2017: case control study design
Variable | Response | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | 15–19 | 39 | 13.1 |
20–24 | 120 | 40.3 | |
25–29 | 87 | 29.2 | |
30–34 | 25 | 8.4 | |
35+ | 27 | 9.0 | |
Religion | Protestant | 122 | 40.9 |
Orthodox | 144 | 48.3 | |
Muslim | 21 | 7.0 | |
Non-believers | 11 | 3.7 | |
Ethnicity | Gamo | 111 | 37.2 |
Gofa | 69 | 23.2 | |
Wolaita | 28 | 9.4 | |
Amhara | 40 | 13.4 | |
Oromo | 50 | 16.8 | |
Educational status | Non-educated | 42 | 14.1 |
Read and write | 6 | 2.0 | |
Grade 1–6 | 46 | 15.4 | |
Grdae 7–8 | 38 | 12.8 | |
Grade 9–12 | 96 | 32.2 | |
Above grade 12 | 70 | 23.5 | |
Occupational status | Housewife | 144 | 48.3 |
Farmer | 29 | 9.7 | |
Government employee | 57 | 19.1 | |
Merchant | 68 | 22.8 | |
Marrietal status | Married | 268 | 89.9 |
Not married | 15 | 5.0 | |
Divorced | 10 | 3.4 | |
Widowed | 2 | 0.7 | |
Separated | 3 | 1.0 | |
Residence | Urban | 183 | 61.4 |
Rural | 115 | 38.6 | |
Wealth index | Very poor | 22 | 7.4 |
Poor | 14 | 4.7 | |
Rich | 70 | 23.5 | |
Medium | 95 | 31.9 | |
Very rich | 97 | 32.6 | |
Mid upper arm circumference | Equal and above 23 cm | 295 | 99.0 |
Less than 23 cm | 3 | 1.0 | |
Interpregnancy interval | Optimal | 131 | 44.0 |
Short | 167 | 56.0 | |
Gestation | Singleton | 290 | 97.3 |
Multiple | 8 | 2.7 |