Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices in Rural and Urban Regions of Indonesia

Table 2

Characteristics of mothers in urban and rural Indonesia.

Mother characteristics	Urban	Rural	Total	p-Value
Mother’s education
Higher	24.7	15.2	20.0	<0.001
Intermediate	60.4	53.5	57.0
Elementary	15.0	31.3	23.0
Mother’s occupation
Work	48.0	45.2	46.6	0.047
Not work	52.0	54.8	53.4
Mother’s age
<20 years	3.1	5.0	4.0	<0.001
20–35 years	75.5	76.6	76.0
>35 years	21.5	18.3	20.0
Marital status
Have couple	98.3	97.7	98.0	0.112
No partner	1.7	2.3	2.0
Parity
Primiparous	32.0	32.4	32.2	<0.001
Multiparous	63.2	59.6	61.4
Grande-multiparous	4.8	8.0	6.4
Age of first marriage
≥21 years	95.0	93.5	94.3	0.02
<21 years	5.0	6.5	5.7
Pregnant planning
Wanted pregnant	89.8	94.4	92.1	<0.001
Unwanted pregnant	10.2	5.6	7.9
ANC place
Health facility	94.2	80.1	87.2	<0.001
Nonhealth facilities	5.8	19.9	12.8
ANC quantity
Good	79.0	66.4	72.7	<0.001
Not good	21.0	33.6	27.3
ANC quality
Good	19.3	18.2	18.8	0.333
Not good	80.7	81.8	81.2
Place of delivery
Health facility	90.1	66.1	78.1	<0.001
Nonhealth facilities	9.9	33.9	21.9

LBW, low birth weight; ANC, antenatal care.