Table 3.

Multilevel logistic regression analysis for the receipt of vitamin A supplementation among children aged 6–59 months in twenty-three sub-Saharan African countries, 2011–2015, using pooled cross-sectional data from Demographic and Health Surveys

	Model 0			Model 1
Variable	OR	95 % CI	P value	OR	95 % CI	P value
Fixed effects, constant	2·07	1·56, 2·75	<0·001	1·44	0·70, 2·98	0·327
Maternal age (years)
20–24 v. 15–19				1·10	1·06, 1·15	<0·001
25–29 v. 15–19				1·20	1·15, 1·26	<0·001
30–34 v. 15–19				1·27	1·21, 1·33	<0·001
≥35 v. 15–19				1·31	1·25, 1·37	<0·001
Maternal educational status
Primary v. no education				1·43	1·39, 1·47	<0·001
Secondary or above v. no education				1·72	1·67, 1·77	<0·001
Type of place of residence
Urban v. rural				1·13	1·11, 1·16	<0·001
Maternal occupational status
Working v. not working				1·29	1·26, 1·32	<0·001
Mass media exposure score
1–3 v. 0				1·33	1·30, 1·36	<0·001
4–6 v. 0				1·52	1·47, 1·57	<0·001
Sex of household head
Female v. male				1·03	1·00, 1·05	0·068
Marital status
Currently in union/living with a man v. never in a union/formerly in a union				1·03	1·00, 1·07	0·076
Sex of child
Male v. female				1·00	0·98, 1·02	0·930
Age of child (months)
12–23 v. 6–11				1·63	1·58, 1·69	<0·001
24–35 v. 6–11				1·38	1·34, 1·43	<0·001
36–47 v. 6–11				1·24	1·20, 1·28	<0·001
48–59 v. 6–11				1·15	1·11, 1·19	<0·001
Contextual country factors
GDP per capita PPP (thousands)				0·95	0·88, 1·03	0·240
Proportion wıth media exposure score of 0				0·14	0·02, 0·82	0·029
Random effects
Country-constant, variance	0·486			0·363
se	0·143			0·107

GDP, gross domestic product, PPP, purchasing power parity.