Childhood exposure to armed conflict and nutritional health outcomes in Nigeria

Table 1 Sociodemographic, health, and maternal characteristics of children aged 36–59 months

Maternal and household characteristics	n	%	Child characteristics and residence	n	%
Maternal education			Child’s age
No education	1668	40.44	3 years	2122	50.80
Primary	773	16.87	4 years	2104	49.21
Secondary	1416	33.53	Childhood anaemia
Higher	369	9.15	Severe	106	2.26
Maternal BMI			Moderate	1397	31.90
< 18.5	359	8.45	Mild	1076	25.64
18.5–24.9	2640	61.46	Not anaemic	1647	40.20
25.0–29.9	813	19.77	Child ever breastfed
30 +	414	10.32	Previously Breastfed	4117	97.35
Household wealth			Never Breastfed	80	1.98
Poorest	867	19.19	Still Breastfeeding	29	0.67
Poorer	830	19.43	Sex of child
Middle	937	20.88	Male	2104	50.71
Richer	880	20.56	Female	2122	49.21
Richest	712	19.94	Children’s nutritional health status^†
Place of residence			Stunted	1481	35.43
Urban	1631	43.53	Wasted	125	2.91
Rural	2595	56.47	Underweight	849	20.11
Total	4226	100.0%	Healthy	2598	61.09

Frequency distributions are unweighted, while percentage distributions (%) are weighted to adjust for the complex design of the survey; ^†-The sub-categories are not mutually exclusive; thus, n (and %) exceeds the total sample size (and 100%)

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