Table 3.
Logistic regression | LR chi2(10) = 155.38 | |||||
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Number of observations = 304 | Log likelihood = −24.606224 | |||||
LR chi2(10) = 155.38 | Pseudo R2 = 0.7595 | |||||
Variables | Coefficient | Odds Ratio | 95% confidence interval | P-value | ||
Information availability/access | Yes* | |||||
No | −4.8 | 0.008 | 0.0008 | 0.0874 | <0.001 | |
Information channel | Radio* | |||||
Places of worship | 2.7 | 0.070 | 0.0043 | 1.1342 | 0.061 | |
Town crier | 1.0 | 0.364 | 0.0277 | 4.7699 | 0.441 | |
Word-of-mouth | 0.7 | 0.506 | 0.0513 | 4.9889 | 0.560 | |
Benefit of vaccination | Yes* | |||||
No | −2.3 | 0.102 | 0.0147 | 0.7134 | 0.021 | |
Cattle vaccination frequency | Every vaccination campaign* | |||||
Every year | −4.1 | 0.016 | 0.0012 | 0.2357 | 0.002 | |
Many years | −5.7 | 0.003 | 0.00005 | 0.2184 | 0.007 | |
Never | −4.3 | 0.014 | 0.0006 | 0.3557 | 0.010 | |
Vaccination protects others | Disagree* | |||||
Moderately agree | 0.8 | 2.279 | 0.1125 | 46.1685 | 0.591 | |
Agree | 4.9 | 129.431 | 1.1750 | 14257.18** | 0.043 |
A common practice would consist to fuse the reference category with the other levels of the variable that are not significantly different from the reference category. We proceed to these supplemental analyses but this process did not give conclusive results. For the “Information channel” variable, the new reference category resulted from the regrouping provided p-values of 0.868 and 0.771 for the odds ratios.
Reference category.
Abnormally wide confidence interval can raise with small sample size or when some variables have several categories with small frequencies.