Table 5 Multivariate Regression Models of good governance and other independent variables on wasting among children age 6–59 months in Ethiopia
Variables | Model_1 | Model_2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Odds ratio | R. Sta. err | P-value | Odds ratio | R. Sta. err | P-value | ||
Government effectiveness | 1.364 | 2.774 | 0.879 | 0.768 | 1.660 | 0.903 | |
Regulatory quality | 0.449 | 1.313 | 0.784 | 0.967 | 3.007 | 0.991 | |
Control corruption | 0.514 | 1.126 | 0.761 | 0.710 | 1.663 | 0.884 | |
Region (Tigray region is ref.) | Affar | 1.702 | 0.164 | 0.000 | |||
Amhara | 1.000 | 0.083 | 0.998 | ||||
Oromiya | 0.892 | 0.074 | 0.166 | ||||
Somali | 1.94 | 0.184 | 0.000 | ||||
Beni-Gumuz | 1.186 | 0.114 | 0.077 | ||||
SNNP | 0.983 | 0.083 | 0.842 | ||||
Gambela | 1.504 | 0.170 | 0.000 | ||||
Harari | 0.790 | 0.119 | 0.117 | ||||
Addis Ababa | 0.572 | 0.112 | 0.004 | ||||
Dire Dawa | 1.333 | 0.167 | 0.022 | ||||
Sex (Male is ref.) | Female | 0.803 | 0.028 | 0.000 | |||
Partner’s education level (Ref. No education) | Primary | 0.875 | 0.030 | 0.000 | |||
Secondary | 0.783 | 0.050 | 0.000 | ||||
Higher | 0.645 | 0.073 | 0.000 | ||||
Current age of child (0 years is ref.) | 1 years | 0.872 | 0.043 | 0.006 | |||
2 years | 0.529 | 0.029 | 0.000 | ||||
3 years | 0.370 | 0.022 | 0.000 | ||||
4 years | 0.447 | 0.026 | 0.000 | ||||
Wealth index Quintile (Poorest is ref.) | Poorer | 0.908 | 0.052 | 0.089 | |||
Middle | 0.895 | 0.052 | 0.058 | ||||
Richer | 0.806 | 0.048 | 0.000 | ||||
Richest | 0.779 | 0.054 | 0.000 | ||||
Toilet type (Unimproved is ref.) | Improved/modern sanitation | 0.827 | 0.059 | 0.008 | |||
Drinking source (Unimproved is ref.) | Improved source of drinking water | 0.975 | 0.061 | 0.678 | |||
Residence (Urban is ref.) | Rural | 0.908 | 0.803 | 0.292 | |||
Highest educational level of the respondents (illiterate is ref.) | Primary | 0.885 | 0.052 | 0.036 | |||
Secondary | 0.668 | 0.080 | 0.001 | ||||
Higher | 0.604 | 0.135 | 0.024 | ||||
No of children under five (≤ 2 is ref.) | > 2 | 0.993 | 0.049 | 0.892 | |||
Sex of household head (Male is ref.) | Female | 1.084 | 0.057 | 0.123 | |||
Respondent’s occupation (Not working is ref.) | Paid working | 0.953 | 0.052 | 0.497 | |||
Agricultural | 1.069 | 0.055 | 0.378 | ||||
Partner’soccupation (Not working is ref.) | Paid working | 0.859 | 0.083 | 0.196 | |||
Agricultural | 0.994 | 0.089 | 0.945 | ||||
Parity (parity≤3 is ref.) | Parity more than 3 | 1.141 | 0.067 | 0.024 | |||
Age of women (15–19 is the ref.) | 20–24 | 1.008 | 0.092 | 0.930 | |||
25–29 | 0.908 | 0.086 | 0.311 | ||||
30–34 | 0.989 | 0.099 | 0.919 | ||||
35–39 | 0.952 | 0.100 | 0.639 | ||||
40–44 | 1.083 | 0.122 | 0.481 | ||||
45–49 | 0.919 | 0.139 | 0.577 | ||||
Number of householdmembers (1–3 members is ref.) | 4–6 members | 0.986 | 0.073 | 0.847 | |||
> 7 members | 0.948 | 0.079 | 0.521 | ||||
R2 | 0.0007 | 0.0462 | |||||