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Table 1 Characteristics of study population

From: Dietary intake, intestinal infection, and safe drinking water among children with anemia in Peru: a cross-sectional analysis

 

N (%)

Characteristics of Study Population

 Sexb

  Male

299 (52.6)

  Female

269 (47.4)

 Age (months)b

20 ± 8.5a

 Area of residenceb

  Metropolitan Lima

201 (35.4)

  Urban

154 (27.1)

  Rural

213 (37.5)

 Basic needs metb

  No

211 (36.1)

  Yes

375 (63.9)

 Childhood Anemiab

  No

274 (46.8)

  Yes

312 (53.2)

Dietary uptake

 Children that meet recommendation for ironb

  No

218 (38.4)

  Yes

350 (61.6)

 Children that meet recommendation for iron, zinc and vitamin Ab

  No

282 (48.1)

  Yes

304 (51.9)

 Children that meet recommendation for iron, zinc, vitamin A, protein and, energyb

  No

342 (58.4)

  Yes

244 (41.6)

 Access to safe drinking waterb

  No

106 (18.1)

  Yes

480 (81.9)

  1. aMean ± standard deviation
  2. bReported from FNSS