Table 2.

Prevalence ratios (PR) for the determinants of child undernutrition using crude and adjusted (for all the variables in the table) GLM log-binomial model, KA-HDSS, Tigray, northern Ethiopia (n = 1, 525).

Variables	Categories	Undernutrition
		Crude PR (95% CI)	p-value	Adjusted PR (95% CI)	p-value
Residence	Urban	1.00		1.00
	Rural	2.41 (1.02, 4.45)	0.045	1.77 (0.62, 5.04)	0.286
Sex of household head	Male	1.00		1.00
	Female	0.74 (0.48, 1.13)	0.166	0.86 (0.56, 1.31)	0.472
Maternal health-seeking practice	Poor	1.00		1.00
	Good	0.76 (0.55, 1.05)	0.098	0.92 (0.66, 1.27)	0.615
Age of household head (5-year increase)		1.08 (1.03, 1.14)	0.002	1.03 (0.97, 1.10)	0.358
Occupation of household head	Farmer	1.00		1.00
	Daily laborer	1.76 (1.27, 2.46)	0.001	2.10 (1.43, 3.09)	<0.001
	Government employee and other occupations	0.60 (0.29, 1.23)	0.160	1.75 (0.75, 4.08)	0.196
Child dietary diversity score	Adequate	1.00		1.00
	Inadequate	1.87 (1.23, 2.82)	0.003	1.90 (1.22, 2.97)	0.005
Maternal undernutrition	No	1.00		1.00
	Yes	1.81 (1.40, 2.33)	<0.001	1.47 (1.14, 1.89)	0.003
Wealth index	Poorest	1.00		1.00
	Poor	0.54 (0.38, 0.77)	0.001	0.65 (0.45, 0.93)	0.020
	Medium	0.52 (0.36, 0.74)	<0.001	0.64 (0.44, 0.93)	0.019
	Wealthy	0.35 (0.23, 0.54)	<0.001	0.46 (0.30, 0.70)	<0.001
	Wealthiest	0.42 (0.28, 0.62)	<0.001	0.53 (0.34, 0.82)	0.004
History of adult death in household	No history of death	1.00		1.00
	Chronic diseases	0.80 (0.35, 1.84)	0.594	0.96 (0.42, 2.17)	0.918
	Acute, external and other causes	0.62 (0.24, 1.60)	0.327	0.61 (0.24, 1.53)	0.292
Geographic location	Lowland	1.00		1.00
	Highland	1.45 (1.11, 1.89)	0.007	1.93 (1.36, 2.75)	<0.001
Two weeks history of morbidity	No	1.00		1.00
	Yes	1.92 (1.20, 3.07)	0.007	1.83 (1.15, 2.92)	0.012
Household size		1.13 (1.06, 1.20)	<0.001	1.10 (1.02, 1.18)	0.016
No crop or monocrop production	Yes	1.00		1.00
	No	0.72 (0.56, 0.93)	0.011	1.00 (0.70, 1.43)	0.999
Highland#variety crop production (yes)		0.56 (0.35, 0.90)	0.018	0.42 (0.23, 0.77)	0.005