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Table 2 Factors associated with child survival, Jimma town, South Western Ethiopia October-November 2004

From: Children who were vaccinated, breast fed and from low parity mothers live longer: A community based case-control study in Jimma, Ethiopia

Variable

Category

Cases

Controls

Crude OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR(95%CI)

Parity

1

22

80

1.00

1.00

 

2-4

39

125

1.14(0.63, 2.05)

1.36(0.70,2.65)

 

5 and above

12

16

2.73(1.13, 6.60)

3.34(1.27,8. 76)

Ever vaccinated

yes

53

206

0.14(0.07,0.32)

0.26(0.11,0.61)

 

no

21

12

1

1

Ever breast fed

Yes

59

219

1.00

1.00

 

No

15

3

18.56(5.2,66.23)

13.21(3.28,53.16)

Wealth index

Poor

63

164

1.00

1.00

 

Satisfied basic needs

11

58

0.54 (0.31,0.93)

0.54(0.29, 0.99)

  1. variables included in the adjusted model are ethnicity, religion, fathers age, floor of the house hold, parity, ever breast fed, vaccination status and wealth index