Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and children under five with fever
|  | Bauchi (N = 379) | Sokoto (N = 435) | Total (N = 814) | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
Mother’s characteristics | |||||||
Age | |||||||
Mean age (SD) | 25.2 (6.3) | 26.9 (6.7) | 26.1 (6.6) | 0.0002 | |||
15–19 years | 58 | 15.3% | 59 | 13.6% | 117 | 14.4% | 0.003 |
20–24 years | 114 | 30.1% | 90 | 20.7% | 204 | 25.1% | |
25–29 years | 93 | 24.5% | 104 | 23.9% | 197 | 24.2% | |
30–34 years | 73 | 19.3% | 107 | 24.6% | 180 | 22.1% | |
35–49 years | 41 | 10.8% | 75 | 17.2% | 116 | 14.2% | |
Education * | Â | ||||||
No education | 263 | 69.4% | 387 | 89.0% | 650 | 79.8% | 0.000 |
Primary education | 77 | 20.3% | 27 | 6.2% | 104 | 12.8% | |
Secondary education | 30 | 7.9% | 8 | 1.8% | 38 | 4.7% | |
Higher education | 9 | 2.4% | 5 | 1.2% | 14 | 1.7% | |
Religion | Â | ||||||
Muslim | 352 | 92.9% | 429 | 98.6% | 781 | 96.0% | 0.000 |
Catholic | 3 | 0.8% | 1 | 0.2% | 4 | 0.5% | |
Other christian | 22 | 5.8% | 2 | 0.5% | 24 | 3.0% | |
Traditionalist | 2 | 0.5% | 3 | 0.7% | 5 | 0.6% | |
Marital status | Â | ||||||
Married | 376 | 99.2% | 422 | 97.0% | 798 | 98.0% | 0.02 |
Not-married | 3 | 0.8% | 13 | 3.0% | 16 | 2.0% | |
Children’s characteristics |  | ||||||
Age | |||||||
Mean (SD) | 16.0 (12.3) | 17.9 (13.0) | 17.0 (12.7) | 0.03 | |||
0–6 months | 93 | 24.5% | 92 | 21.2% | 185 | 22.7% | 0.008 |
7–12 months | 87 | 23.0% | 95 | 21.8% | 182 | 22.4% | |
13–18 months | 79 | 20.8% | 61 | 14.0% | 140 | 17.2% | |
19–24 months | 57 | 15.0% | 96 | 22.1% | 153 | 18.8% | |
25–59 months | 63 | 16.6% | 91 | 20.9% | 154 | 18.9% | |
Sex | Â | 0.7 | |||||
Male | 199 | 52.5% | 234 | 53.8% | 433 | 53.2% | |
Female | 180 | 47.5% | 201 | 46.2% | 381 | 46.8% | |
Household characteristics | Â | Â | |||||
Multifamily household | 34 | 9.0% | 95 | 21.8% | 129 | 15.8% | <0.0001 |