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Table 1 description of demographic and health surveys data by countries, educational and diarrhoea prevalence among under-five children in LMIC, 2010–2018

From: Exploring the socio-economic determinants of educational inequalities in diarrhoea among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries: a Fairlie decomposition analysis

Country

Year of Survey

Number of Clusters

Number of Under 5 Children

Weighted (%) Illiterate

Weighted Diarrhoea Prevalence (%)

Overall

aIlliterate

bLiterate

All

 

63,378

796,150

33.5

**14.2

*15.8

13.4

Eastern Africa

 

6298

102,886

26.5

16.7

*15.3

17.2

Burundi

2016

554

12,431

46.8

22.5

22.9

22.2

Comoros

2012

252

2949

46.6

17.0

16.9

17.0

Ethiopia

2016

643

9916

65.9

11.9

*11.3

13.1

Kenya

2014

1593

19,889

11.9

15.4

14.2

15.5

Malawi

2016

850

16,246

13.5

21.9

*18.3

22.5

Mozambique

2011

610

10,157

37.3

11.2

11.0

11.4

Rwanda

2014

492

7474

14.7

12.2

*14.0

11.9

Tanzania

2015

608

9445

21.3

12.1

*9.4

12.8

Uganda

2016

696

14,379

10.9

20.0

18.8

20.2

Middle Africa

 

3081

71,630

31.4

19.0

19.4

18.8

Angola

2016

625

13,463

29.3

15.7

*14.5

16.2

Cameroon

2011

578

10,326

27.5

21.7

*30.3

18.4

Chad

2015

624

16,710

65.9

22.3

*19.9

26.7

Congo

2012

384

8723

7.3

19.3

*13.3

19.8

Congo DR

2014

536

16,994

18.9

17.0

*15.3

17.4

Gabon

2012

334

5414

6.2

16.8

*11.2

17.2

Northern Africa

 

874

15,458

17.7

14.0

*16.4

13.5

Egypt

2014

874

15,458

17.7

14.0

*16.4

13.5

Southern Africa

 

2544

25,529

5.3

15.5

16.9

15.4

Lesotho

2014

396

2824

0.9

12.2

8.1

12.3

Namibia

2013

536

4449

6.2

19.1

*15.4

19.3

South Africa

2016

668

3241

1.4

11.0

11.6

11.0

Zambia

2018

545

9311

10.3

15.5

17.3

15.3

Zimbabwe

2015

399

5704

1.2

17.1

23.6

17.0

West Africa

 

6285

139,382

61.6

14.7

*15.2

13.9

Benin

2018

555

12,512

65.5

10.5

10.5

10.6

Burkina Faso

2010

573

13,621

83.8

14.9

*14.4

17.2

Cote d’Ivoire

2012

351

6876

64.0

18.5

*16.6

21.7

Gambia

2013

281

7633

59.4

17.8

*16.4

19.7

Ghana

2014

427

5539

27.4

11.9

*14.4

10.9

Guinea

2015

401

7213

76.6

14.6

14.7

14.3

Liberia

2013

322

6806

41.8

22.7

22.0

23.2

Mali

2018

345

9171

73.0

17.2

17.6

16.4

Niger

2012

476

11,437

85.7

14.4

*14.0

16.4

Nigeria

2018

1389

30,603

45.0

12.8

*16.3

10.0

Senegal

2017

400

11,253

61.4

18.0

*18.7

17.0

Sierra Leone

2013

435

10,254

69.4

11.5

11.5

11.5

Togo

2013

330

6464

40.5

15.2

*17.3

13.8

Central Asia

 

682

10,216

1.7

10.2

*18.6

10.0

Kyrgyz Rep

2012

316

4222

0.0

5.2

0.0

5.2

Tajikistan

2017

366

5994

2.7

13.3

*18.7

13.1

South-Eastern Asia

 

1850

17,168

6.4

9.0

*12.5

8.7

Cambodia

2014

609

6934

13.7

12.9

13.4

12.8

Philippines

2017

1241

10,234

1.1

6.1

4.1

6.1

Southern Asia

 

33,053

322,219

33.3

11.5

*14.5

10.1

Afghanistan

2015

956

30,520

83.2

29.1

29.0

29.9

Bangladesh

2014

600

7541

16.4

5.7

5.9

5.7

India

2016

28,321

247,181

29.5

9.2

*9.5

9.1

Indonesia

2017

1967

17,155

1.0

14.2

13.8

14.2

Maldives

2016

265

3048

1.3

4.2

0.0

4.3

Nepal

2016

383

4827

34.1

7.7

8.6

7.2

Pakistan

2018

561

11,947

48.5

19.2

*17.5

20.8

Western Asia

 

2048

27,441

32.7

21.8

*30.7

17.5

Armenia

2016

306

1709

5.6

3.8

6.2

3.7

Jordan

2017

962

10,454

1.6

9.7

*4.6

9.7

Yemen

2013

780

15,278

55.1

31.4

31.5

31.3

Central America

 

1996

22,524

12.4

18.7

17.7

18.8

Guatemala

2014

856

12,038

18.5

19.2

*17.1

19.7

Honduras

2011

1140

10,486

4.8

18.0

20.4

17.9

South America

 

1401

9408

3.1

12.3

8.9

12.4

Peru

2012

1401

9408

3.1

12.3

8.9

12.4

Southern Europe

 

651

2745

1.4

6.1

0.0

6.2

Albania

2018

651

2745

1.4

6.1

0.0

6.2

Caribbean

 

1860

21,129

18.3

15.0

*12.0

15.7

Dominican Rep

2013

516

3560

2.3

18.2

13.3

18.3

Haiti

2016

449

6082

19.9

21.4

19.5

21.9

Myanmar

2014

440

4575

17.8

10.5

10.7

10.4

Timor-Leste

2016

455

6912

25.0

10.8

*7.5

11.9

Oceania

 

755

8415

25.5

15.4

15.0

15.6

Papua New Guinea

2016

755

8415

25.5

15.4

15.0

15.6

  1. **significant at 5% chi-square test *significant at 5% test of equality of proportions between a and b