Table 3.

Associations of household socio-economic position variables (considered together) with the odds of stunting for each country, with estimated differences (in the associations) between Sri Lanka and each other country

	Sri Lanka		Bangladesh		Sri Lanka v. Bangladesh difference		India		Sri Lanka v. India difference		Nepal		Sri Lanka v. Nepal difference		Pakistan		Sri Lanka v. Pakistan difference
	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI	AOR	95 % CI
Mothers Education
Higher [referent]	–		–		–		–		–		–		–		–		–
Secondary	1·32	1·09, 1·61	1·67	1·29, 2·17	0·79	0·57, 1·10	1·36	1·26, 1·47	0·97	0·79, 1·20	1·17	0·71, 1·94	1·13	0·66, 1·93	1·75	1·00, 3·05	0·76	0·42, 1·37
Primary	1·97	1·28, 3·03	1·66	1·24, 2·20	1·19	0·71, 1·99	2·02	1·86, 2·20	1·16	0·74, 1·80	1·84	1·10, 3·08	1·16	0·56, 2·40	2·73	1·59, 4·69	1·03	0·49, 2·17
No education	2·88	1·26, 6·55	2·03	1·39, 2·96	1·42	0·57, 3·50	1·70	1·55, 1·86	1·42	0·62, 3·26	1·69	0·94, 3·04	1·56	0·59, 4·14	1·90	1·04, 3·47	1·05	0·39, 2·82
Wealth index
Richest [referent]	–		–		–		–		–		–		–		–		–
Richer	1·22	0·89, 1·67	1·91	1·44, 2·52	0·69	0·45, 1·06	1·25	1·15, 1·36	1·01	0·73, 1·40	1·47	0·78, 2·77	0·65	0·31, 1·38	1·06	0·64, 1·75	0·89	0·47, 1·69
Middle	1·51	1·10, 2·08	2·56	1·93, 3·40	0·51	0·33, 0·77	1·54	1·42, 1·68	0·91	0·65, 1·26	1·65	0·86, 3·18	0·80	0·39, 1·64	1·42	0·88, 2·31	0·98	0·54, 1·78
Poorer	1·68	1·23, 2·31	3·33	2·52, 4·40	0·59	0·39, 0·90	1·86	1·70, 2·03	0·98	0·71, 1·36	2·10	1·10, 4·01	0·91	0·44, 1·89	1·71	1·03, 2·83	1·06	0·60, 1·90
Poorest	2·17	1·58, 2·99	3·13	2·36, 4·16	0·64	0·42, 0·97	2·15	1·96, 2·36	0·97	0·70, 1·35	3·34	1·70, 6·60	0·83	0·41, 1·67	2·45	1·40, 4·28	1·15	0·63, 2·08

AOR, adjusted OR.

All models included sampling weights and were adjusted for age sex (binary term: male and female) and place of residence (binary term: urban and rural).