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4. RESULTSTable 3 shows the sample details and household interview response rates for the survey. A totalof 1,512 households were selected, of which 1,504 were interviewed, yielding a householdresponse rate of 99.5%.Table 3: Response rates and sample details for survey areas, Lahj governorate, July 2012Ecological Zone Lowland MountainousClusters in sample 40 36Households sampled 803 709Response rate 99.5 99.4Number of Households 799 705Number of Children (6-59 months) 803 7684.1. Demographics and socio-economic characteristics4.1.1. Household compositionInformation about the composition of household by sex of the head of the household andsize of the household is presented in Table 4. Among all the heads of households inMountainous areas, 94.3% were male, while only 5.7% were female. This percentagedecreases slightly for Lowland households with 92% male-headed and 7.8% female-headed.Households with 10 to 14 members account for 15.3% of Mountainous households,compared with 14.3% of Lowland households. Similarly, the proportion of 15 or moremember households is higher in Mountainous households (2.8%) than in Lowlandhouseholds (2.0%).The average household size in the Lowland and Mountain community are comparable atapproximately 7 members per household. Lowland community had an average of 6.87people per household and the Mountainous community had an average of 7.05 people perhousehold. The mountainous community had the most number of children per householdof the two surveys, including highest percentage of households under children under 6months old. The average number of under-fives was 1.19 and 1.09 in Mountainous andLowland areas, respectively.25