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Table 3 Multivariate analysis of weight-for-age

From: Social determinants of inequities in under-nutrition (weight-for-age) among under-5 children: a cross sectional study in Gumla district of Jharkhand, India

Characteristics

Coefficient (S. E.)

Exp(B)

 Sex (Male = 1, Female = 0)

0.112 (0.122)

1.119

 Social Status (ST = 1, Non-ST = 0)

0.002 (0.134)

1.002

 CBOParticipation (Yes = 1, No = 0)

−0.031 (0.128)

.969

 Motherliteracy (No Edu. Or less than Matriculation = 0, Above Matriculation = 1)

−0.168 (0.162)

0.845

Asset Based Quintiles

  

 Quintile 1

0.531 (0.210)

1.700**

 Quintile 2

0.406 (0.205)

1.500**

 Quintile 3

0.167 (0.198)

1.181

 Quintile 4

0.480 (0.197)

1.617**

 Quintile-5 was the reference group

  

 Constant

−0.168 (0.186)

.845

Number of Observations

1094

 

Significance of Hosmer and Lemeshow Chi-Square test of goodness-of-fit

0.813

 

Significance of Omnibus test of the model

0.060

 

Nagelkerke R-square

0.02

 

-Loglikelihood

1493.976

 

**p < 0n05