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. 2010 Mar 9;10:116. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-116

Table 4.

Measures of variation (random effects)

Model 1a Model 2b Model 3c Model 4d Model 5e
Random effects
Community-level
 Variance (SE) 0.595(0.160)* 0.494 (0.158)* 0.432 (0.157)* 0.317 (0.174)* 0.627 (0.195)*
 VPC (%) 13.6 11.3 9.9 8.8 14.5
Mother-level
 Variance (SE) 0.486 (0.247)* 0.574 (0.255)* 0.634 (0.258)* 0.000 (0.190) 0.417 (0.280)*
 VPC (%) 11.1 13.2 14.5 0 9.6

a Model 1: contained only migration status;

b Model 2: migration status and demographic characteristics;

c Model 3: migration status and socio-economic characteristics;

d Model 4: migration status and characteristics indicating health care utilization;

e Model 5: migration status and community-level characteristics.

VPC = Variance partition coefficient; SE = Standard error: OR = Odds ratio; CI = Confidence Interval.

*p < .05;

**p < .01;

***p < .001