Description of child socio Sample Clauses

Description of child socio demographic characteristics and anthropometry Table 1 describes characteristics, household socio-demographic background, and caregiving environment of 9202 children, from 7017 households with an average of 1.3 children per household, included in this study. Mean age was 2.6 years (range: 0 to 5 years), with a slightly higher proportion of boys (52.6%) than girls (47.4%). On average, children weighed 11.6 kg and were 85.0 cm tall. Mean height-for-age z-score was -2.2, reflecting a high proportion of growth failure due to stunting in this population. Average age of mothers at the time of the survey was about 28 years, while average age at marriage was about 18 years old. Mother’s BMI was 20.8 indicating that most mothers are within the underweight-normal weight range. Overall, father’s education was higher than mother’s with fewer fathers receiving no education (20.9%) compared to mothers (37.6%). A greater proportion of children included in this analysis were from the lowest income quintile (27.6%) than the highest quintile (13.5%), relative to the full sample of households. The majority of children were from households that were Hindu (80.9%), belong to the historically disadvantaged other backward caste group (43.4%), and rural (74.4%). The other 5256 children from ages zero to five that were excluded due to missing values for certain variables of interest had similar results in all categories (see Supplemental Table 1). The average age for children was 2.6 years, 51.2% were boys, average height was 77.7 cm and average weight was 12.2 kg. Height-for-age z-score was the worst anthropometric indicator at -4.1, which is two points worse than stunting in the sample population. Mean age of mothers was 27 years, while average BMI was 21.0, and average age at marriage is about 18 years. The majority of mothers did not have schooling beyond the 9th standard (73%) while 46.3% of fathers had received some education up to the 9th standard and 25.2% had schooling up until the 10-12th standard range. Household income was more evenly divided amongst the population with about 20% in each quintile. The majority of this population were from other backward castes (43.7%), Hindu (74.8%) and lived in rural residences (71.5%). In other respects, analyzed and excluded children resembled one another.