Table 3.

(a) Relationship between minimum dietary diversity and mean Hb stratified by age of child. (b) Relationship between minimum dietary diversity and prevalence of anaemia stratified by age of child.

(a)
	Age in months
	6–11	12–23	24–35	36–47	48–59
	268	579	105	197	224
N	Mean (95% CI)	Mean (95% CI)	Mean (95% CI)	Mean (95% CI)	Mean (95% CI)
Variable
Minimum diet diversity
< 4	9.7 (9.48, 9.87)	9.6 (9.46, 9.74)	10.1 (9.86, 10.42)	10.1 (9.86, 10.34)	10.5 (10.27, 10.66)
≥ 4	10.3 (9.80, 10.70)	9.9 (9.64, 10.13)	9.8 (8.01, 11.62)	10.2 (9.58, 10.72)	9.8 (9.35, 10.32)
Test Statistic	F (1, 267) = 4.0, p = 0.047	F (1, 578) = 3.8, p = 0.05	F (1, 104) = 0.3, p = 0.6	F (1, 196) = 0.03, p = 0.9	F (1, 223) = 6.3, p = 0.01

(b)
		6–11 months
		Anaemia
Characteristic	N	No n (%)	Yes n (%)	Test statistic
Minimum diet diversity
< 4	238	50 (21)	188 (79.0)	χ2 = 1.3; p = 0.3
≥ 4	30	9 (30.0)	21 (70.0)
		12–23 months
Minimum diet diversity
< 4	426	80 (18.8)	346 (81.2)	χ2 = 3.7; p = 0.05
≥ 4	153	40 (26.1)	113 (73.9)
		24–35 months
Minimum diet diversity
< 4	98	32 (32.7)	66 (67.3)	χ2 = 0.1; p = 0.8
≥ 4	7	2 (28.6)	5 (71.4)
		36–47 months
Minimum diet diversity
< 4	168	50 (29.8)	118 (70.2)	χ2 = 0.3; p = 0.6
≥ 4	29	10 (34.5)	19 (65.5)
		48–59 months
Minimum diet diversity
< 4	190	65 (34.2)	125 (65.8)	χ2 = 0.3; p = 0.6
≥ 4	34	10 (29.4)	24 (70.6)