Table 3.

Estimates of random intercept model (EDHS, 2011).

Fixed effects	Categories	coefficients	SE	z-value	p-value	$\exp (\widehat{\beta })$	95% C.I for $\exp (\widehat{\beta })$
							lower	upper
β 0-intercept		0.3536	0.1733	2.04	0.041		0.0139	0.6933
Place of Residence	Urban (ref)
	Rural	0.0773	0.07535	1.03	0.305	1.0804	0.9320	1.252
Sex of child	Male (ref)
	Female	−0.0355	0.05755	−0.62	0.537	0.9651	0.8622	1.080
Number of children under 5 in household	0-3 (ref)
	4-6	0.2624	0.066	3.99	0.001	1.3	1.1427	1.479
	above 6	0.1718	0.089	1.92	0.054	1.187	0.9968	1.415
Wealth index	Poor (ref)
	Middle	−0.1876	0.0699	−2.68	0.007	0.829	0.7228	0.9508
	Rich	−0.3296	0.0788	−4.18	0.001	0.7192	0.6163	0.8393
Marital status	Married (ref)
	Widowed	0.0654	0.1276	0.51	0.608	1.0676	0.8314	1.371
	Divorced/Separated	−0.0624	0.1177	−0.53	0.596	0.9395	0.7460	1.1833
Child's age in month	6-23 (ref)
	24-41	−0.3111	0.0714	−4.36	0.001	0.7326	0.6370	0.8426
	42-59	−0.5876	0.0728	−8.08	0.001	0.5556	0.4818	0.6408
Mother's current working status	Not working (ref)
	Working	−0.1540	.0615	−2.50	0.012	0.8572	0.7599	0.9671
Husband/partner's education level	No education (ref)
	Primary	−0.1493	0.0646	−2.31	0.021	0.8613	0.7588	0.9776
	Secondary & above	−0.7062	0.1129	−6.25	0.001	0.4935	0.3955	0.6158
Given iron pills/syrup	No (ref)
	Yes	−0.2993	0.0795	−3.76	0.001	0.7414	0.6344	0.8664
Size of child at birth	Larger than average (ref)
	Average	−0.1530	0.0701	−2.18	0.029	0.8581	0.7480	0.9845
	Smaller than average	0.1123	0.0747	1.50	0.132	1.1189	0.9666	1.2952
source of drinking water	Not improved (ref)
	Improved	−0.2685	0.0679	−3.96	0.001	0.7645	0.6693	0.8733
Random effect
${\widehat{\sigma }}_{u_{{\hspace{0.17em}}_{\hspace{0.17em}}}}^2=\mathrm{v}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{r}(u_{\mathrm{0}j})$		0.1698	0.0768	2.21			0.2645	0.6420
ICC(ρ)		0.0491