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. 2015 Jun 9;18(17):3172–3182. doi: 10.1017/S1368980015001640

Table 3.

Weighted multilevel logistic regression estimate of education and mother’s overweight by national nutrition transition (NT) status 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 3
Log odds se OR
Education 0·063*** 0·007 1·065
Education×NT status −0·004*** 0·001 0·995
Education×Urbanization −0·002** 0·000 0·998
Education×Logged GDP 0·011 0·009 1·011
Education2 −0·005*** 0·000 0·995
Wealth 0·317*** 0·018 1·373
Age 0·059*** 0·001 1·061
Pregnancy (yes=1) 0·696*** 0·039 2·005
Urbanicity (urban=1) 0·339*** 0·042 1·403
NT status 0·057** 0·014 1·059
Urbanization 0·029** 0·007 1·030
Logged GDP 0·032 0·165 1·033
Intercept −0·654*** 0·067 0·519
Sample size 143 258
Number of groups 22
Variance components
Intercept (τ 00) 0·10184***
Education (τ 11) 0·00012***
Covariance (τ 10) −0·00080***

GDP, gross domestic product.

**P<0·01 ***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.