Nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in the Brazilian Western Amazon before and after the Interoceanic highway paving: a population-based study

Table 6 Prevalence (%) and Odds Ratio (OR) of low height-for-age in children under 5 years according to socio-demographic and economic characteristics, 2003

Categorical variables	N* (n = 199)	%	Crude	p value**
Continuous variables^#		Mean(SD)	OR
*Home ownership*
Own home (fully owned or mortgaged)	162	4.9%	1	0.027
Rented, gifted or invaded	37	16.2%	3.726	0.027
*Electric power supply*
Lacking	22	22.7%	1	0.011 '
Present	177	5.1%	0.182	0.011 '
*Wealth index*
Richer half	104	1.9%	1	0.004 '
Poorer half	95	12.6%	7.373	0.004 '
*Mother schooling (years)*
Did not go to school	8	37.5%	1	< 0.001
1 to 4 years	27	7.4%	0.013
Above 4 years	81	1.2%	0.002
p linear tendency				0.003
*Maternal height (cm)* ^#	186	158.5 (5.29)	0.855	0.01
*Number of pregnancies* ^#	113	2.63 (2.21)	1.35	0.018
*Anaemia diagnosis*
No	69	49.64%	1	0.176
Yes	70	50.36%	3.09

Assis Brasil, AC, 2003.
*Missing in some variables.
**p-values without a mark ( ): Pearson’s chi-square test; with a mark ( ' ): Fisher's exact test.

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