Table 4.

Odds ratios for logistic regression models of severely underweight children, N = 3,770.

	Model 1 OR	Model 2 OR	Model 3 OR
Urban residence	1.12	1.12	1.13
Hindu	1.19	1.19	1.20
Caste/ethnicity
High caste	0.62**	0.62**	0.62**
Tibeto-Burman	0.39***	0.38***	0.39***
Other (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Household wealth
Highest	0.42***	0.43***	0.42***
Intermediate high	0.61**	0.61**	0.62**
Middle	0.47***	0.47***	0.47***
Intermediate low	0.75**	0.75**	0.75**
Lowest (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Mother’s age	1.02**	1.02**	1.02**
Mother’s education
None (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Primary	0.85	0.84	0.85
Some secondary or more	0.61	0.60	0.61
Father’s education
None or unknown (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Primary	0.93	0.93	0.93
Some secondary	0.61***	0.61***	0.61***
Completed secondary	0.46***	0.46**	0.46**
Mother owns livestock	1.03	1.03	1.04
Land ownership
Lives in landed household (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Mother owns land	0.53**	0.51**	0.54**
Lives in landless household	0.78	0.78	0.79
Mother’s empowerment scale		1.05
Mother has final say alone			0.85
−2 Log Likelihood	2,812.8	2,811.0	2,811.3
Model Chi-Square	78.7***	90.3***	79.1***

^*p<0.10

^**p<0.05

^***p<0.01

Source: Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2001