Table 1 Socio-demographic and household characteristics of the respondents study areas and sex (%)
| Â | South-eastern districts | North-eastern districts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | M | F | All | M | F | All |
Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||||
Age (yrs) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   ≤19 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
   20–39 | 38.9 | 25.4 | 38.0 | 35.5 | 24.8 | 34.8 |
   40–59 | 43.7 | 53.2 | 44.4 | 45.3 | 54.9 | 45.9 |
   ≥60 | 17.2 | 20.6 | 17.5 | 18.8 | 20.1 | 18.9 |
Completed years of schooling | ||||||
   None | 42.8 | 69.4 | 44.6 | 53.6 | 75.2 | 55.1 |
   1–5 | 25.7 | 17.9 | 25.2 | 24.9 | 17.6 | 24.4 |
   >5 | 31.6 | 12.7 | 30.3 | 21.5 | 7.1 | 20.6 |
Main occupation | ||||||
   Self-employment (agri.) | 45.8 | 11.1 | 43.4 | 42.7 | 2.9 | 40.0 |
   Self-employment (non-agri) | 23.0 | 3.2 | 21.6 | 21.9 | 2.9 | 20.6 |
   Wage-labour | 10.2 | 9.9 | 10.2 | 17.0 | 8.8 | 16.5 |
   Service | 10.6 | 4.8 | 10.2 | 7.4 | 2.9 | 7.1 |
   Domestic chores | 0.7 | 61.5 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 69.9 | 5.8 |
   Others* | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 12.5 | 10.0 |
Household head | ||||||
   Male | --- | --- | 93.3 | --- | --- | 93.2 |
   Female | --- | --- | 6.7 | --- | --- | 6.8 |
Household asset quintiles | ||||||
   Poorest | --- | --- | 23.6 | --- | --- | 18.0 |
   2nd | --- | --- | 21.3 | --- | --- | 21.6 |
   3rd | --- | --- | 18.1 | --- | --- | 18.5 |
   4th | --- | --- | 19.7 | --- | --- | 20.3 |
   Least poor | --- | --- | 17.4 | --- | --- | 21.6 |
N | 3498 | 252 | 3750 | 5548 | 408 | 5999 |