Nutritional characterisation of low-income households of Nairobi: socioeconomic, livestock and gender considerations and predictors of malnutrition from a cross-sectional survey

Table 4 Multivariable regression analysis for predictors of interest of nutritional outcomes

Description	Categories	n	β HAZ (p-val)	β WHZ (p-val)	β Ch Hb (p-val)	β M BMI^a (p-val)	β M Hb^b (p-val)
Area	0 = Dagoretti; 1 = Korogocho	100/104	−0.427 (0.014)	−0.392 (0.045)	−0.239 (0.219)	−0.004 (0.893)	0.021 (0.849)
Household income	1 = <1 K	12		base (0.009) ^c		base (0.019)^c
	2 = 1 K-5 K	96		−0.140 (0.714)		−0.065 (0.226)
	3 = 5 K-10 K	67		−0.682 (0.087)		−0.007 (0.899)
	4 = 10 K-20 K	29		−0.929 (0.037)		0.051 (0.409)
HH head education	0 = None or 1^ary; 1 = Secondary+	113/83	0.313 (0.076)
Maternal status	0 = Not married; 1 = Married	44/160	−0.427 (0.045)
Female livestock holding	0 = 0; 1= >0	157/47		0.426 (0.054)
Maternal age [yrs]	-	204	0.000 (0.973)	0.010 (0.479)	0.017 (0.299)	0.007 (<0.0001)	−0.002 (0.833)
Child age [months]	-	204	−0.021 (0.082)
Child sex	0 = Male; 1 = Female	116/88	0.332 (0.050)
Prematurity	0 = No; 1 = Yes	186/16					−0.344 (0.098)

B-coefficients and p-values (p-val) are presented. Ch child, HH, household, M mother, n sample size
^amother’s BMI was log transformed to improve normality of distribution
^bmother’s Hb was transformed as (Hb^3)/1000 to improve normality of distribution
^coverall P-value for variable

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