Table 8.

Predictors of meat quality along the meat value chain in Dessie City administration, Northeast Ethiopia.

Model		Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	P-value	95.0% Confidence Interval for B
		B	Std. Error	Beta		Lower bound	Upper bound
1	(Constant)	11.552	2.196		0.000	7.215	15.889
	Sex of the respondent	−0.134	0.117	−0.068	0.254	−0.364	0.097
	Age of the respondent	0.003	0.055	0.003	0.956	−0.106	0.112
	Educational status of the meat handlers	0.100	0.049	0.124	0.044*	0.003	0.197
	Marital status	−0.115	0.058	−0.118	0.050	−0.231	0.000
	Religion of the respondent	0.079	0.077	0.063	0.308	−0.073	0.231
	Attitude score (100%)	0.010	0.005	0.120	0.054	0.000	0.021
	Practice score (100%)	−0.003	0.004	−0.044	0.481	−0.010	0.005
	Water quality	−0.778	0.355	−0.129	0.030*	−1.479	−0.076
	Meat contact surface microbial quality	0.525	0.377	0.083	0.165	−0.219	1.269
	Knowledge score	−0.003	0.003	−0.071	0.243	−0.009	0.002
	Hand swab samples	−1.130	0.115	−0.598	≤0.001*	−1.358	−0.902

*Indicates the presence of statistical association.