Number of living children (0 2; 3–5; 6 or more children) Maternal education (None, Primary incomplete, Primary complete; Secondary and above) Spousal education (None, Primary; Secondary and above) Respondent's religion (Roman Catholic; Protestant/other Christian, Islam) Household wealth index (0: poor, 1: middle and 2: the rich).
In this study, women with secondary and above level of education were about two times more likely to have above-average knowledge than women with no formal education.
In 2014, 28.58% women were illiterate, 23.24% had primary and 48.18% had secondary and above educated.
In 2004, 52.03% women were illiterate, 43.48% had primary education and 4.49% had secondary and above education.
Also, primary and secondary or above education of mothers contributed about 18.9 and 11.8 %, respectively, to inequality in child malnutrition measured by weight-for-age.
Education level was categorized into four mutually exclusive groups (none, up to Primary, up to Secondary and above Secondary).
However, women with secondary and above education were less likely to experience unintended childbirth.
Women with secondary and above education were also significantly associated with antenatal and delivery care by a skilled provider.
Factors independently associated with rotavirus diarrhea were high education level (secondary and above) of the mother, breastfeeding, and dehydration.
We defined "more education" as junior secondary or above in Cross River and any formal education in Bauchi.
At bivariate analysis, breastfeeding, dehydration, age below 2 years and high education level (secondary and above) were significantly associated with rotavirus diarrhea, (table 1).
