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Table 1 Household risk of food under-supply in Bosnia (still short of food after receiving food aid) from multivariate analysis, 1995 and 1996

From: Clustering and meso-level variables in cross-sectional surveys: an example of food aid during the Bosnian crisis

Variable

Bivariate Unadjusted OR Cornfield (95%CI)

Naïve Mantel Haenszel OR-adjusted (95%CI)

Lamothe cluster adjusted ORmh (assuming OR constant)§ (95%CIca)

GEE Exchangeable matrix OR (naïve 95%CI)

Lamothe cluster adjusted ORmh (not assuming OR constant ¤) (95%CIca)

GLMM Laplace approximation OR (95%CI)

Household characteristics

     

Disabled in household

2.24 (1.42-3.25)

1.52 (1.02-2.27)

ns

ns

ns

ns

Displaced people

2.38 (2.18-2.60)

2.36 (2.16-2.58)

2.29 (1.53-3.43)

1.95 (1.56-2.44)

2.43 (1.78-3.08)

2.41 (2.2-2.64)

No remittance

1.84 (1.63-2.10)

1.90 (1.67-2.14)

1.60 (1.28-1.99)

1.68 (1.33-2.09)

1.87 (1.40-2.34)

1.89 (1.67-2.14)

Female headed household

1.12 (0.97-1.28)

1.25 (1.08-1.43)

1.21 (1.01-1.44)

1.27 (1.08-1.49)

1.25 (1.03-1.48)

1.22 (1.06-1.4)

No employment

1.82 (1.65-2.01)

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

Muslim vs. non-Muslim

0.96 (0.88-1.05)

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

Cluster characteristics

     

Agency2 (vs others)

1.71 (1.55-1.89)

1.65 (1.49-1.82)

ns

ns

1.8 (1.10-2.50)

1.59 (1.43-1.76)

Republic (vs BiH)

1.21 (1.10-1.32)

1.37 (1.24-1.50)

ns

ns

ns

ns

Recent frontline conflict

0.99 (0.89-1.10)

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

Rural (vs urban)

1.00 (0.88-1.13)

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

Number of households

n=17905

n=17549

n=17562

n=

n=17562

n=17561

  1. ns=not significant, dropped from model
  2. ¤ odds ratio estimated as the midpoint of cluster-adjusted MH 95%CI
  3. § data for this calculation provided in Table 2