Table 4.

Estimates of random coefficients model (EDHS, 2011).

Fixed effects	Categories	coefficients	SE	z-value	p-value	$\exp (\widehat{\beta })$	95% C.I for $\exp (\widehat{\beta })$
							lower	upper
Wealth index	Poor (ref)
	Middle	−0.18087	0.07025	−2.58	0.010	0.8346	0.7273	0.9577
	Rich	−0.3187	0.0792	−4.02	0.001	0.7271	0.6225	0.8492
Number of children under 5	0-3 (ref)
	4-6	0.2620	0.0659	3.97	0.001	1.2995	1.1420	1.4788
	above 6	0.1656	0.0896	1.85	0.065	1.1800	0.9899	1.4067
Place of Residence	Urban (ref)
	Rural	0.0732	0.0757	0.97	0.334	1.0759	0.9276	1.2480
Marital status	Married (ref)
	Widowed	0.0816	0.1281	0.64	0.524	1.0850	0.8441	1.3950
	Divorced/Separated	−0.0619	0.11767	−0.526	0.599	0.9410	0.7470	1.1855
Child's age in month	6-23 (ref)
	24-41	−0.3061	0.0715	−4.28	0.001	0.7363	0.6401	0.8471
	42-59	−0.5852	0.0729	−8.03	0.001	0.5570	0.4829	0.6425
Mother's current working status	Not working (ref)
	Working	−0.1542	0.0616	−2.50	0.012	0.8571	0.7596	0.9671
Husband/partner's education level	No education (ref)
	Primary	−0.1578	0.0844	−1.87	0.061	0.8540	0.7238	1.0076
	Secondary & above	−0.7413	0.1548	−4.79	0.001	0.4765	0.3518	0.6454
Given iron pills/syrup	No (ref)
	Yes	−0.2943	0.0796	−3.70	0.001	0.7450	0.6374	0.8708
Size of child at birth	Larger than average (ref)
	Average	−0.1561	0.0702	−2.22	0.026	0.8555	0.7455	0.9816
	Smaller than average	0.1044	0.0744	1.40	0.161	1.1100	0.9594	1.2844
source of drinking water	Not improved (ref)
	Improved	−.2776	.0736	−3.77	0.001	0.7576	0.6558	0.8752
β 0-intercept		0.3431	0.1651	2.08	0.038		0.0196	0.667
Random effect
σ 0   2 = var(U0j)	0.2303	0.1070					0.0927	0.573
σ 1   2 = var(U1j)	0.0282	0.0228					0.0058	0.1380
σ 2   2 = var(U2j)	0.0066	0.027					2.10e − 06	21.043
σ 12   = cov(U1j, U2j)	0.0075	0.0192					−0.0302	0.0452
σ 10   = cov(U1j, U0j)	−0.0571	0.0415					−0.1384	0.0242
σ 20   = cov(U2j, U0j)	−0.0267	0.0397					−0.1046	0.0512
ICC(ρ)	0.075