Different forms of malnutrition among under five children in Bangladesh: a cross sectional study on prevalence and determinants

BMC Nutrition

Table 3 Estimates of parameters of the logistic regression model to determine factors affecting malnutrition (wasting)

Background characteristics		B	S.E.(β)	Wald statistics	df	Sig.	Odds ratio
Age groups (in months)	<6	.610	.127	22.940	1	.000	1.840
	6–8	.192	.159	1.468	1	.226	1.212
	9–11	.446	.145	9.512	1	.002	1.562
	12–17	.274	.122	5.022	1	.025	1.315
	18–23	–.133	.137	.932	1	.334	.876
	24–35	–.050	.111	.202	1	.653	.951
	36–47	–.172	.115	2.242	1	.134	.842
	48–59 (r)
Sex	Male	.124	.067	3.416	1	.065	1.133
Sex	Female (r)
Place of residence	Urban	–.069	.092	.568	1	.451	.933
Place of residence	Rural (r)
Division	Barisal	.539	.173	9.735	1	.002	1.714
	Chittagong	.417	.137	9.202	1	.002	1.517
	Dhaka	.040	.133	.091	1	.763	1.041
	Khulna	.257	.171	2.255	1	.133	1.294
	Rajshahi	.443	.154	8.288	1	.004	1.557
	Rangpur	.415	.155	7.175	1	.007	1.514
	Sylhet (r)
Religion	Muslim	.217	.128	2.963	1	.091	1.243
Religion	Others (r)
Mother’s Education	Primary or below	.019	.079	.061	1	.805	1.020
Mother’s Education	Secondary or Higher (r)
Father’s Occupation	Physical labor	.264	.288	1.342	1	.247	1.303
	Service/business	.342	.233	2.145	1	.143	1.408
	Others (r)
Mother’s Occupation	Physical labor	.189	.080	5.610	1	.018	1.208
	Service/business	.105	.175	.358	1	.550	1.110
	Others (r)
Mother’s BMI (weight/height²)	Under weight	.763	.123	38.815	1	.000	2.145
	Normal weight	.487	.109	20.035	1	.000	1.627
	Over weight/Obese (r)
Wealth index	Poorest	.083	.137	.371	1	.543	1.087
	Poorer	.052	.132	.159	1	.690	1.054
	Middle	–.192	.127	2.298	1	.130	.825
	Richer	–.060	.119	.255	1	.614	.942
	Richest (r)
Toilet Facility	Hygienic	.050	.095	.269	1	.604	1.051
Toilet Facility	Unhygienic (r)
No. of Living Children	1–2	.048	.079	.369	1	.543	1.049
No. of Living Children	3–11 (r)