Table 1 Unadjusted prevalence of children aged <5 years at home supervised by another child <10 years grouped by region.

From: Children supervising children across low- and middle-income countries: the role of mothers’ education

Region

Country

Survey

Child-to-child supervision (%)

N

East Asia and Pacific (EAP)

Cambodia

DHS7 - 2014

7.80

6872

Kiribati

MICS6 - 2018–19

10.24

2050

Laos

MICS6 - 2017

9.90

11,002

Mongolia

MICS6 - 2018

11.00

5789

Myanmar

DHS7 - 2015–16

10.63

4537

Samoa

MICS6 - 2019–20

10.00

2471

Thailand

MICS6 - 2019

3.10

10,732

Timor-Leste

DHS7 - 2016

14.90

4115

Tonga

MICS6 - 2019

5.63

1223

Tuvalu

MICS6 - 2019–20

6.90

433

Vietnam

MICS5 - 2014

5.90

3186

Europe and Central Asia (ECA)

Belarus

MICS6 - 2019

2.10

3476

Bosnia and Herzegovina

MICS4 - 2011–12

1.10

2266

Georgia

MICS6 - 2018

3.00

2482

Kazakhstan

MICS5 - 2015

4.55

5405

Kosovo

MICS6 - 2019–20

5.90

1522

Kyrgyzstan

MICS6 - 2018

6.50

3366

Republic of North Macedonia

MICS6 - 2018–19

4.56

1497

Moldova

MICS4 - 2012

4.70

1756

Montenegro

MICS6 - 2018

2.96

1124

Serbia

MICS6 - 2019

2.30

1804

Turkmenistan

MICS6 - 2019

1.90

3647

Ukraine

MICS4 - 2012

5.60

4280

Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA)

Burundi

DHS7 - 2016–17

37.30

12,395

Lesotho

MICS6 - 2018

12.80

2559

Madagascar

MICS6 - 2018

25.70

11,958

Malawi

MICS5 - 2013–14

30.60

17,998

Rwanda

DHS7 - 2017

30.67

7403

Eswatini

MICS5 - 2014

10.20

2225

Uganda

DHS7 - 2016

31.29

13,850

Zimbabwe

MICS6 - 2019

17.80

5506

Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)

Argentina

MICS6 - 2019–20

3.00

5900

Barbados

MICS4 - 2012

Belize

MICS5 - 2015–16

12.10

2442

Colombia

DHS6 - 2010

4.50

16,930

Costa Rica

MICS6 - 2018

6.52

3524

Cuba

MICS6 - 2019

1.81

5109

Dominican Republic

MICS6 - 2019

6.62

7934

El Salvador

MICS5 - 2014

1.56

7100

Guyana

MICS6 - 2019–20

5.24

2611

Haiti

DHS7 – 2016–17

16.84

3881

Honduras

MICS6 - 2019

4.45

8071

Jamaica

MICS4 - 2011

0.54

1540

Mexico

MICS5 - 2015

3.50

7894

Panama

MICS5 - 2013

1.69

5472

Paraguay

MICS5 - 2016

1.80

4394

Saint Lucia

MICS4 - 2012

2.90

274

Suriname

MICS6 - 2018

4.50

3733

Trinidad and Tobago

MICS4 - 2011

0.40

1124

Turks and Caicos Islands

MICS6 - 2019–20

0.70

274

Uruguay

MICS4 - 2012–13

1.40

1525

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Algeria

MICS6 - 2018–19

7.80

14,728

Egypt

DHS6 - 2014

2.66

15,349

Iraq

MICS6 - 2018

6.10

16,497

Jordan

DHS7 - 2017–18

9.20

5265

Palestinian National Authority

MICS6 - 2019–20

11.20

6302

Qatar

MICS4 - 2012

4.86

1961

Tunisia

MICS6 - 2017

10.30

3376

South Asia (SA)

Afghanistan

MICS4 - 2010–11

30.40

13,967

Bangladesh

MICS6 - 2019

6.40

22,789

Bhutan

MICS4 - 2010

9.50

5939

Maldives

DHS7 - 2016–17

9.80

2997

Nepal

MICS6 - 2019

15.40

6509

West and Central Africa (WCA)

Benin

MICS5 - 2014

20.80

11,612

Cameroon

DHS6 - 2011

27.90

5327

Central African Republic

MICS6 - 2018–19

40.80

8105

Chad

MICS6 - 2019

55.70

19,898

Congo

DHS6 - 2011–12

28.30

8495

Democratic Republic of the Congo

MICS6 - 2017–18

40.70

19,925

Ivory Coast

MICS5 - 2016

10.30

8416

Gambia

MICS6 - 2018

9.60

9386

Ghana

MICS6 - 2017–18

15.53

8119

Guinea

MICS5 - 2016

21.60

6813

Guinea-Bissau

MICS6 - 2018–19

19.10

4008

Mali

MICS5 - 2015

24.00

15,139

Mauritania

MICS5 - 2015

26.00

9626

Nigeria

MICS5 - 2016–17

22.10

26,273

São Tomé and Príncipe

MICS6 - 2019

13.54

1727

Senegal

DHS7 - 2017

13.97

11,329

Sierra Leone

MICS6 - 2019

16.60

10,516

Togo

MICS6 - 2017

20.70

4655