Table 4 Percentage of children 0–59 months classified as stunted, underweight and wasted in northern Ghana from the Africa RISING project in 2012
Characteristics | *Stunting (N = 496) | *Underweight (N = 493) | *Wasting (N = 499) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Absent | Present | Absent | Present | Absent | Present | |
Sex | ||||||
Male | 194 (74.6) | 66 (25.4) | 214 (82.9) | 44 (17.1) | 237 (91.2) | 23 (8.8) |
Female | 167 (70.8) | 69 (29.2) | 192 (81.7) | 43 (18.3) | 221 (92.5) | 18 (7.5) |
Age (months) | ||||||
0−5 | 46 (86.8) | 7 (13.2) | 43 (81.1) | 10 (18.9) | 44 (84.6) | 8 (15.4) |
6−11 | 47 (87.0) | 7 (13.0) | 43 (79.6) | 11 (20.4) | 42 (77.8) | 12 (22.2) |
12−23 | 54 (73.0) | 20 (27.0) | 56 (75.7) | 18 (24.3) | 65 (87.8) | 9 (12.2) |
24−35 | 75 (65.8) | 39 (34.2) | 96 (84.2) | 18 (15.8) | 107 (93.9) | 7 (6.1) |
36−47 | 67 (68.4) | 31 (31.6) | 83 (85.6) | 14 (14.4) | 94 (96.9) | 3 (3.1) |
48−59 | 72 (69.9) | 31 (30.1) | 85 (84.2) | 16 (15.4) | 99 (98.0) | 2 (2.0) |
Region | ||||||
Northern | 117 (58.2) | 84 (41.8) | 146 (73.4) | 53 (26.6) | 175 (86.6) | 27 (13.4) |
Upper West | 126 (84.6) | 23 (15.4) | 133 (89.9) | 15 (10.1) | 143 (95.3) | 7 (4.7) |
Upper East | 118 (80.8) | 28 (19.2) | 127 (87.0) | 19 (13.0) | 140 (95.2) | 7 (4.8) |
Total | 361 (72.8) | 135 (27.2) | 406 (82.4) | 87 (17.6) | 458 (91.8) | 41 (8.2) |