Table 5.

Determinants of not introducing solid, semi‐solid or soft food to infants 6–8 months, Bangladesh 2007: unadjusted and adjusted ORs

Outcome variable	Characteristic	Unadjusted			Adjusted
		OR	[95% CI]	P	OR	[95% CI]	P
Not complementary fed	Mother's education
	Secondary and above	1.00			1.00
	Primary	1.50	(0.71, 3.20)	0.287	2.31	(1.07, 4.96)	0.033
	No education	2.04	(1.05, 3.96)	0.036	2.14	(1.08, 4.23)	0.029
	Father's occupation
	Agricultural	1.00			1.00
	Non‐agricultural/Others/Don't know	2.34	(1.04, 5.27)	0.040	3.05	(1.33, 7.00)	0.009
	Age of child (in months)	0.68	(0.47, 0.99)	0.045	0.62	(0.41, 0.92)	0.018

CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio. Notes: Independent variables adjusted for are: gender, age, birth order, preceding birth interval, diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, mother's age, mother's literacy, mother's working status, mother's body mass index, father's education, marital status, household wealth index, reads newspaper, listens to radio, watches television, mode of delivery, place of delivery, type of deliver, delivery assistance, antenatal check‐up, post‐natal check‐up, residence and geographical region. P‐values for odds ratios are based on multiple logistic regression model that includes all predictor variables and takes account of clustering.