Is there any association between undesired children and health status of under-five children? Analysis of a nationally representative sample from Bangladesh

Table 4 Random effects of multilevel logistic regression analyses

Indicators	Random effects
Indicators	ICC: Empty model (RC)	Excess in Boy		Excess in Girl		Excess in Parity
Mortality	ICC: Empty model (RC)	ICC: Final model	PCV (%)	ICC: Final model	PCV (%)	ICC: Final model	PCV (%)
Early Neonatal Mortality	0.14	0.11	24.7	0.12	21.4	0.11	28.9
Neonatal Mortality	0.11	0.08	26.4	0.09	20.4	0.08	26.2
Post Neonatal Mortality	0.22	0.16	32.4	0.16	28.7	0.14	39.8
Infant Mortality	0.06	0.03	46.2	0.04	35.6	0.03	51.7
Under 5 Mortality	0.07	0.04	35.3	0.05	27.5	0.04	40.3
Morbidity and treatment
Diarrhea in last two weeks	0.06	0.04	36.8	0.04	36.6	0.04	37.3
Fever in last two weeks	0.06	0.05	13.4	0.05	13.2	0.05	13.4
Acute Respiratory Infection	0.12	0.08	34.4	0.08	34.0	0.08	35.0
Postnatal checkup of baby	0.26	0.12	62.2	0.12	62.3	0.12	60.6
Treatment for fever/cough	0.11	0.08	24.7	0.08	26.9	0.08	25.2
Vitamin A in last six months	0.10	0.11	-3.8	0.11	-4.5	0.11	-5.3
Nutrition
Severely Stunted	0.10	0.06	48.4	0.06	47.9	0.06	47.1
Moderately Stunted	0.05	0.03	51.6	0.03	51.8	0.03	51.6
Severely Underweight	0.10	0.06	39.0	0.07	38.6	0.07	38.4
Moderately Underweight	0.07	0.04	46.3	0.04	46.2	0.04	46.0
Severely Wasted	0.15	0.08	47.2	0.08	48.4	0.09	45.6
Moderately Wasted	0.09	0.08	10.1	0.08	10.4	0.08	11.0
LBW	0.08	0.06	23.2	0.06	23.8	0.06	21.6

RC Reference category, ICC Intra-class/community correlation coefficient, PCV Proportional change in community variance

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