Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents according to selected socio-demographic characteristics, North Gondar, 2012.

*The index of wealth status was computed by principal component analysis from ten variables (presence of own farmland, own toilet facility, bank account, mobile phone, electricity, roof of house with corrugated iron sheet, number of cows/oxen, horses/mules/donkeys, goats/sheep and chicken). The index was developed by categorizing sum of components in to five groups and it was ranked from poorest to wealthiest quintile.