Table 9. Minimum acceptable diet received by children regressed on household food security variables, maternal resources and contextual variables for boys.
| B | S.E. | Wald | df | Sig. | O.R. | 95% C.I. for O.R. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Household Food Security (reference: food insecure) | -0.61 | 0.34 | 3.24 | 1 | 0.07 | 0.54 | 0.28 | 1.06 |
| Maternal dietary diversity (continuous) | -0.32 | 0.10 | 9.97 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.73 | 0.60 | 0.89 |
| Maternal Education (reference: uneducated) | -0.73 | 0.78 | 0.86 | 1 | 0.35 | 0.48 | 0.10 | 2.24 |
| Maternal English Literacy (reference: illiterate) | 0.39 | 0.70 | 0.31 | 1 | 0.58 | 1.47 | 0.38 | 5.76 |
| Maternal Age | -0.04 | 0.02 | 3.71 | 1 | 0.05 | 0.96 | 0.92 | 1.00 |
| Age of Child (reference: 6–11 months) | 11.87 | 2 | 0.00 | |||||
| 12–17 months | -0.61 | 0.45 | 1.84 | 1 | 0.18 | 0.55 | 0.23 | 1.31 |
| 18–23 months | -1.24 | 0.37 | 11.41 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.14 | 0.59 |
| Locality (reference: rural) | 0.59 | 0.43 | 1.85 | 1 | 0.17 | 1.80 | 0.77 | 4.19 |
| Brong Ahafo (reference) | 10.20 | 3 | 0.02 | |||||
| Northern | 0.04 | 0.48 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.94 | 1.04 | 0.41 | 2.64 |
| Upper East | 0.65 | 0.69 | 0.87 | 1 | 0.35 | 1.91 | 0.49 | 7.43 |
| Upper West | -1.22 | 0.60 | 4.10 | 1 | 0.04 | 0.29 | 0.09 | 0.96 |
| Household size (continuous) | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.51 | 1 | 0.47 | 1.03 | 0.96 | 1.10 |
| Constant | 5.24 | .099 | 27.90 | 1 | 0.00 | 188.59 | ||
Overall model fit estimates: R square range: 0.09–0.17. χ2 = 41.85. Degrees of freedom = 12. O.R. indicates odds ratio. C.I. indicates confidence intervals