Association between caregivers’ knowledge and care seeking behaviour for children with symptoms of pneumonia in six sub-Saharan African Countries

Table 1 Background characteristics of children

	CAR		Chad		DRC		Malawi		Nigeria		Sierra Leone
	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
Wealth index
Poorest	21.6	1475	19.2	1897	22.5	1600	22.1	3079	22.8	3697	22.4	1349
Poor	21.7	1478	20.2	1992	20.8	1484	21.6	3014	20.8	3377	21.4	1292
Middle	20.4	1389	21.0	2078	20.5	1459	20.4	2851	18.6	3028	20.6	1245
Rich	19.5	1328	21.5	2123	19.6	1394	18.1	2522	18.9	3071	19.6	1185
Richest	16.9	1151	18.1	1784	16.6	1185	17.8	2486	18.9	3070	16.0	963
Residence
Rural	64.1	4371	78.5	7755	73.5	5238	87.0	12137	68.9	11188	72.1	4349
Urban	35.9	2450	21.5	2118	26.5	1884	13.0	1814	31.1	5054	27.9	1684
Education level
None	41.4	2823	73.8	7289	24.1	1715	12.0	1670	42.0	6828	71.2	4295
Primary	42.6	2905	18.4	1821	42.7	3044	69.6	9702	19.7	3202	13.5	813
Secondary +	16.0	1093	7.7	763	33.2	2363	18.4	2574	38.2	6212	15.3	925
Number of children
0-1	18.5	1261	14.2	1403	16.9	1205	19.7	2754	15.7	2551	18.5	1119
2-3	34.9	2378	27.6	2728	30.5	2173	35.5	4947	31.9	5189	34.6	2090
4+	46.6	3182	58.2	5742	52.6	3744	44.8	6250	52.3	8502	46.8	2824
Child age
< 2 years	62.2	4241	58.9	5820	65.8	4687	50.3	7015	60.7	9858	50.7	3058
2-5 years	37.8	2580	41.1	4053	34.2	2436	49.7	6936	39.3	6384	49.3	2975
Sex of the child
Male	50.6	3449	49.8	4920	50.2	3575	50.6	7058	51.4	8341	50.3	3031
Female	49.4	3372	50.2	4954	49.8	3548	49.4	6892	48.6	7901	49.7	2998
Total sample size		6821		9873		7123		13951		16242		6033
Total reported cases^a	7.2	492	9.6	947	6.6	473	7.8	1088	3.7	607	9.2	556

Note: For all calculations, numbers and percentages are based on weighted averages which are also adjusted for missing data. For these reasons, manual re-calculation might show slight differences (i.e., the total sample size will vary for each category as the missings within this category will differ). ^aCases are children with symptoms of pneumonia in the past two weeks, as reported by their caregiver

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