Table 8.

Determinants of not meeting the minimum acceptable diet 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 acceptable diet	Geographical region
	Rajshahi	1.00			1.00
	Sylhet	3.12	(1.92, 5.06)	<0.001	3.44	(1.82, 6.47)	<0.001
	Dhaka	1.74	(1.24, 2.45)	0.001	1.74	(1.19, 2.55)	0.004
	Khulna	1.18	(0.82, 1.68)	0.370	1.30	(0.86, 1.97)	0.213
	Chittagong	1.93	(1.37, 2.71)	0.000	2.19	(1.50, 3.19)	0.000
	Barisal	1.93	(1.26, 2.95)	0.003	2.14	(1.24, 3.68)	0.006
	Delivery assistance
	Health professional	1.00			1.00
	Traditional birth attendant	2.36	(1.09, 5.12)	0.030	3.41	(1.17, 9.93)	0.025
	Other untrained	1.55	(1.22, 1.96)	0.001	2.41	(1.26, 4.63)	0.008
	Mother's education
	Secondary and above	1.00			1.00
	Primary	1.55	(1.04, 2.29)	0.03	1.36	(1.01, 1.84)	0.046
	No education	1.66	(1.66, 2.63)	0.027	1.73	(1.20, 2.49)	0.003
	Child's age in category
	18–23	1.00			1.00
	12–17	1.47	(1.13, 1.92)	0.004	1.54	(1.15, 2.06)	0.004
	6–11	5.17	(3.74, 7.16)	<0.001	6.22	(4.39, 8.81)	<0.001

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, father's occupation, marital status, household wealth index, reads newspaper, listens to radio, watches television, mode of delivery, place of delivery, type of delivery, 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.