Determinants of child anthropometric indicators in Ethiopia

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Table 3 Linear regression analyses between anthropometric indicators and independent variables (n = 1005)

		Wasting^a (weight for height)		stunting^b (height for age)		underweight^c (weight for age)		BMI^d for age
		Beta	L-H bound	Beta	L-H bound	Beta	L-H bound	Beta	L-H bound
Independent	Sex of children	−0.114	−0.782, −0.151	−0.126	−0.936,-0.243	− 0.074	−0.530,-0.008	− 0.071	−0.627,0.022
variables	Age of children	−0.036	−0.020,0.007	− 0.128	−0.042,-0.011	− 0.084	−0.025,-0.002	− 0.041	−0.022,0.007
	Diarrhea in last two weeks	−0.034	−0.629,0.241	0.081	0.038,0.975	− 0.029	−0.501,0.217	− 0.019	−0.568,0.345
	Open defecation	0.007	−0.116,0.138	0.103	0.055,0.332	0.100	0.042,0.257	−0.006	− 0.143,0.121
	Region	0.141	0.548-,1.840	−0.064	−1.349,0.099	0.061	−0.087,1.037	0.150	0.647,1.989
	Maternal education	0.045	−0.150,0.585	0.092	0.095,0.897	0.100	0.120,0.729	0.054	−0.1100.641
	Maternal MUAC	0.113	0.189,0.985	0.057	−0.106,0.794	0.136	0.305,0.983	0.091	0.077,0.895
	Women’s dietary diversity	−0.040	−0.516,0.166	0.032	− 0.216,0.534	−0.031	− 0.402,0.161	−0.051	− 0.578,0.122

Children’s dietary diversity was removed from the model due to collinearity with women’s dietary diversity
^a Model summary (R = 0.240; R² = 0.057; adjusted R square = 0.046; Std. Error of the estimate = 1.973; Durbin Watson = 1.719)
^bModel summary (R = 0.247; R² = 0.061; adjusted R square = 0.050; Std. Error of the estimate = 2.242; Durbin Watson = 1.681)
^cModel summary (R = 0.234; R² = 0.055; adjusted R square = 0.044; Std. Error of the estimate = 1.745; Durbin Watson = 1.740)
^dModel summary (R = 0.217; R² = 0.047; adjusted R square = 0.035; Std. Error of the estimate = 2.050; Durbin Watson = 1.675)
Source: Self-calculation of micro-data from Survey of Ethiopia 2016 (GROW)

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