Table 3.

Odds ratios of recent occurrence of fever, cough and dyspnea among Ugandan infants

	Fever			Cough			Dyspnea
	Overall**	Boys	Girls	Overall**	Boys	Girls	Overall**	Boys	Girls
Child-level variables
Age of child (< 2 months)
2–5 months	1.305*	1.252*	1.366*	1.282*	1.323*	1.241*	1.366*	1.305*	1.436*
Birth order (4th)
1st child	0.711*	0.803*	0.632*	1.053	1.068	1.055	0.754*	0.812	0.700*
2nd child	0.720*	0.770*	0.673*	0.972	1.018	0.924	0.765*	0.900	0.641*
3rd higher	1.057	1.135	0.987	0.942	0.996	0.887	0.994	1.001	0.986
Maternal and household -level variables
Age of mother (15–24)
25–34	1.410*	1.287*	1.530*	1.087	0.950	1.237*	1.402*	1.253	1.551*
> 34	1.184*	1.155	1.204*	1.038	0.977	1.096	1.195*	1.138	1.244*
Educational level (No education)
Primary	1.212*	1.164	1.261*	1.136	0.980	1.317*	1.834*	1.647*	2.057*
Secondary/higher	1.233*	1.224*	1.240*	1.074	0.911	1.266	1.399*	1.194	1.662*
Occupation (Not working)
Service/skilled manual	0.965	0.975	0.952	0.859*	0.859*	0.854*	1.020	0.976	1.067
Agriculture/other	0.969	0.972	0.964	1.040	1.020	1.042	0.828*	0.770*	0.884
Religion (Catholic)
Islam/others	0.826*	0.734*	0.928	0.997	0.976	1.017	1.086	1.140	1.042
BMI (Obese)
Underweight	1.933*	2.061*	1.827*	1.436*	1.291	1.593*	0.842	0.983	1.057
Normal weight	1.458*	1.623*	1.314*	1.079	1.012	1.152	1.139	1.239	1.050
Overweight	1.029	1.084	0.985	0.940	0.825	1.084	1.100	1.161	0.822
Child was intended (No)
Yes	0.780*	0.719*	0.845*	0.842*	0.846*	0.835	0.885	0.958	1.051
Wealth status (Non-poor)
Poor	1.119*	1.106	1.131*	0.978	0.967	0.993	0.987	0.932	0.998
Residency (Rural)
Urban	0.684*	0.627*	0.743*	0.905*	0.841*	0.971	0.933	0.873*	1.091

N.B. * = significant at p < 0.05. ** = adjusted for sex