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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