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Table 2.

Weighted multilevel logistic regression estimate of the functional form of the education gradient on mother’s overweight among mothers of reproductive age (15–49 years; n 143 258) across twenty-two administrations of the Demographic and Health Survey in nine Latin American/Caribbean countries

	Model 1			Model 2
	Log odds	se	OR	Log odds	se	OR
Education	−0·011	0·005	0·989	0·068***	0·007	1·070
Education²				−0·005***	0·0004	0·995
Wealth ^†	0·318***	0·018	1·375	0·317***	0·018	1·373
Age	0·055***	0·002	1·056	0·059***	0·001	1·061
Pregnancy (yes=1)	0·684***	0·041	1·981	0·696***	0·039	2·005
Urbanicity (urban=1)	0·357***	0·042	1·429	0·339***	0·042	1·403
Intercept	−0·521***	0·095	0·593	−0·704***	0·083	0·494
Sample size	143 258
Number of groups	22
Variance components^‡
Intercept (τ ₀₀)	0·29192***			0·25004***
Education (τ ₁₁)	0·00090***			0·00065***
Covariance (τ ₁₀)	−0·01368***			−0·00979***

***P<0·001.

^†

Grand-mean centred variables are italicized.

^‡

The significance of variance components indicates whether the random effect can be assumed in intercept and coefficients.