Table 7.

Determinants of not meeting the minimum meal frequency among children aged 6–23 months: unadjusted and adjusted ORs, Bangladesh 2007

Outcome variable	Characteristic	Unadjusted			Adjusted
		OR	[95% CI]	P	OR	[95% CI]	P
Not meeting minimum meal frequency	Geographical region
	Rajshahi	1.00			1.00
	Sylhet	3.13	(1.70, 5.76)	<0.001	3.40	(1.67, 6.94)	0.00
	Dhaka	1.74	(1.02, 2.97)	0.04	1.63	(0.96, 2.76)	0.07
	Khulna	1.13	(0.56, 2.27)	0.74	1.02	(0.50, 2.07)	0.96
	Chittagong	3.75	(2.13, 6.62)	<0.001	4.52	(2.57, 7.94)	<0.001
	Barisal	2.90	(1.57, 5.36)	0.00	3.40	(1.82, 6.35)	<0.001
	Mother's education
	Secondary and above	1.00			1.00
	Primary	1.11	(0.78, 1.58)	0.57	1.26	(0.88, 1.82)	0.21
	No education	1.51	(1.00, 2.29)	0.05	1.70	(1.09, 2.67)	0.02
	Child's age in category
	18–23	1.00			1.00
	12–17	2.65	(1.58, 4.45)	<0.001	2.43	(1.45, 4.08)	0.00
	6–11	7.86	(5.01, 12.32)	<0.001	8.89	(5.56, 14.21)	<0.001
	Place of delivery
	Home	1.00			1.00
	Health facility	1.25	(0.87, 1.78)	0.23	1.76	(1.16, 2.68)	0.01

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, type of delivery, delivery assistance, antenatal check‐up, post‐natal check‐up and residence. P‐values for odds ratios are based on multiple logistic regression model that includes all predictor variables and takes account of clustering.