Table 4.

Determinants of nutrition status of adolescents in terms of height for age z-scores in Jimma zone, South West Ethiopia

	Univariate Linear Regression				Multivariable Linear Regression
Variables	ß	95% CI		P-value	ß	95% CI		P-value
Residence in semi urban	0.0041	-0.1065	0.1148	0.9417	-0.0487	-0.1794	0.0819	0.4645
Residence in rural	-0.2136	-0.3178	-0.1093	0.0001	0.1136	-0.0495	0.2768	0.1721
Sex (male)	-0.1473	-0.2464	-0.0482	0.0036	-0.1595	-0.2606	-0.0585	0.0020
Age in Years	0.0638	0.0268	0.1007	0.0007	-0.0320	-0.0739	0.0100	0.1350
Highest grade completed	0.0917	0.0732	0.1101	0.0000	0.1066	0.0803	0.1328	0.0000
private school	-0.3180	-0.7355	0.0996	0.1355	-0.1189	-0.5510	0.3133	0.5897
community school	-0.8765	-1.5391	-0.2140	0.0095	-1.2114	-1.9757	-0.4471	0.0019
Other type of school	-0.5280	-1.0622	0.0062	0.0527	-0.0004	-0.5486	0.5478	0.9988
Household income	0.0006	0.0003	0.0008	0.0000	0.0005	0.0002	0.0007	0.0014
Job	0.1258	0.0159	0.2356	0.0248	0.2198	0.1051	0.3345	0.0002
Abdominal pain	-0.1451	-0.2514	-0.0388	0.0075	-0.1328	-0.2401	-0.0255	0.0153
household size	-0.0254	-0.0398	-0.0110	0.0006	-0.0224	-0.0384	-0.0064	0.0062
Mothers primary education	-0.0649	-0.1720	0.0422	0.2347	-0.0963	-0.2222	0.0296	0.1336
Mothers secondary education	0.2982	0.1389	0.4574	0.0002	0.0747	-0.1248	0.2741	0.4628
Fathers no education	-0.0874	-0.1959	0.0211	0.1144	0.0716	-0.0585	0.2018	0.2805
Fathers secondary education	0.1536	0.0337	0.2735	0.0121	-0.0804	-0.2253	0.0646	0.2770

Source: Jimma Longitudinal Family of Youth; Round 2, 2006-2007. CI= confidence interval