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Table 2 Association between socio-economic, demographic factors and child anemia status in Bangladesh

From: Factors influencing childhood anaemia in Bangladesh: a two level logistic regression analysis

Variables

Coefficients

SE

z-value

p-value

AOR

95% CI for AOR

Lower

Upper

Mother anemia level

 No Vs YesR

−0.655

0.087

−6.24

0.001

0.519

0.438

0.616

Child nutritional status

 Normal or over nutrition Vs Under nutritionR

−0.197

0.119

−1.66

0.048

0.821

0.650

1.037

Child age group (year)

 2 ≤ age < 3 Vs Age < 2R

−0.979

0.139

−7.02

0.002

0.376

0.286

0.494

 3 ≤ age < 4 Vs Age < 2R

−1.226

0.135

−9.06

0.003

0.294

0.225

0.383

 4 ≤ age < 5 Vs Age < 2R

−1.472

0.142

−10.39

0.004

0.229

0.174

0.303

Household wealth index

 Middle Vs PoorR

−0.286

0.154

−1.86

0.043

0.751

0.555

1.016

 Rich Vs PoorR

−0.389

0.172

−2.27

0.023

0.678

0.484

0.948

Division

 Chittagong Vs DhakaR

0.233

0.159

1.46

0.144

1.262

0.924

1.724

 Barisal Vs DhakaR

0.562

0.184

3.05

0.002

1.755

1.222

2.518

 Khulna Vs DhakaR

0.334

0.177

1.88

0.061

1.396

0.985

1.977

 Rajshahi Vs DhakaR

0.087

0.175

0.50

0.619

1.090

0.774

1.537

 Rangpur Vs DhakaR

0.527

0.171

3.08

0.002

1.694

1.211

2.367

 Sylhet Vs DhakaR

0.057

0.166

0.35

0.729

1.059

0.765

1.466

Religion

 Muslim Vs Non-MuslimR

−0.388

0.169

−2.29

0.022

0.782

0.487

0. 946

Hosmer and Lemeshow test

Chi-square value = 4.23

df = 9

p-value = 0.836

  1. N.B.: R reference case, AOR Adjusted Odds ratio, SE Standard error, CI Confidence interval, df degree of freedom