. 2023 Oct 31;11:1163491. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1163491

Table 4.

Crude association between the quality of care score and the center caregiver and childcare center characteristics.

Variable	Level/statistic	Mean (SD)/Correlation	Crude association
Variable	Level/statistic	Mean (SD)/Correlation	$β$ -Coefficient (95% CI)	Value of p
Caregiver sex	Male	63.4 (±10.4)	ND	ND
Caregiver sex	Female	58.3 (±11.4)	ND	ND
Caregiver Age (years)	Correlation^a	0.131	0.15 [−0.06, 0.35]	0.155
Highest education level completed	Primary	55.2 (±12.0)	Ref.
Highest education level completed	Secondary+	61.3 (±10.1)	6.13 [0.63, 11.63]	0.030
Location of childcare center	Korogocho	61.3 (±13.7)	Ref.
Location of childcare center	Viwandani	57.7 (±10.5)	−3.61 [−11.16, 3.95]	0.344
Type of childcare center	Home-based	54.8 (±10.2)	Ref.
	Center-based	65.0 (±11.1)	10.20 [3.60, 16.82]	0.003
	Faith-based	69.6 (±2.5)	14.82 [11.24, 18.40]	<0.001
Center received some form of support	No	57.7 (±11.6)	7.24 [1.53, 12.95]	0.014
Center received some form of support	Yes	65.0 (±6.8)	7.24 [1.53, 12.95]	0.014
Log (Caregiver: child ratio)	Correlation^a	0.402	6.09	0.002
Log (Caregiver: child ratio)	Correlation^a	0.402	[2.41, 9.77]	0.002
Log (number of children in center)	Correlation^a	0.409	4.97 [2.00, 7.95]	0.001
Log (years of operation)	Correlation^a	−0.076	−0.91 [−3.73, 1.91]	0.520
Center provider KAP scores (%)	Correlation^a	0.586	0.68 [0.44, 0.93]	<0.001

ND – Association not done due to small count in one cell (men); ^aPearson’s correlation.

The bold statistics represent those factors that are significantly associated with quality of childcare centers.