Predictors of Low Birth Weight at Lumbini Provincial Hospital, Nepal: A Hospital-Based Unmatched Case Control Study

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of study participants, Lumbini Provincial Hospital, 2019.

Variables	Category	Frequency	Percentage
Age group of respondent	<20	18	5.7
	20–30	227	72.1
	>30	70	22.2
Ethnicity of respondent	Dalit	36	11.4
	Janjati	79	25.1
	Religious minorities	31	9.8
	Upper caste	169	53.7
Educational status of respondent	Literate	281	89.2
	Illiterate	34	10.8
Occupation of respondent	Labor/wage worker	17	5.4
	Unemployed/wousewife	250	79.4
	Employed	48	15.2
Family type of respondent	Nuclear	188	59.7
	Joint	127	40.3