Table 2.

Estimated regression coefficients of binary logistic regression model (BlogM) for child malnutrition status defined as height-for-age Z-score less than −2.00, the corresponding odds ratios (ORs), and adjusted predicted proportion (APP) of malnourished children from nominal-scale multiple classification analysis (NS-MCA) model, BDHS 2011

Background Characteristics	Estimated regression coefficient of BlogM and OR		Predicted proportion from NS-MCA
	Β	OR	APP
Child’s age in months (Reference Category: <12)
<12			20.83
12–23	1.406	4.081***	48.89
24–35	1.314	3.722***	46.78
36–47	1.284	3.610***	46.13
48–59	1.027	2.792***	40.42
Child’s birth weight (Reference Category: Large)
Large			33.61
Average	0.318	1.374**	39.95
Small	0.753	2.123***	49.47
Birth interval in months (Reference Category: 48+)
<24	0.383	1.467***	47.35
24–47	0.208	1.231**	43.47
48+			38.90
Mother’s education (Reference Category: Higher)
Illiterate	0.642	1.900***	44.23
Primary	0.592	1.807***	42.92
Secondary	0.418	1.519***	39.08
Higher			32.10
Mother’s BMI(kg/m2) (Reference Category: 18.5–24.99)
<18.5	0.270	1.310***	45.91
18.5–24.99			39.81
25+	−0.346	0.708***	33.19
Household economic status (Reference Category: Richest)
Poorest	1.109	3.031***	51.26
Poorer	0.869	2.385***	45.68
Middle	0.673	1.961***	41.20
Richer	0.451	1.570***	36.48
Richest			27.71
Family size (number of members) (Reference Category: Middle)
Small (<4)	0.173	1.189*	42.58
Middle (4–6)			39.00
Large (7+)	0.177	1.194**	42.80
Place of residence (Reference Category: Urban)
Urban			42.84
Rural	−0.153	0.858*	39.71
Region (Division) (Reference Category: Barisal)
Barisal			41.29
Chittagong	0.011	1.011	41.54
Dhaka	0.108	1.114	43.65
Khulna	−0.198	0.820	37.34
Rajshahi	−0.400	0.671***	33.12
Rangpur	−0.057	0.944	40.12
Sylhet	0.158	1.171	44.60
Goodness-of-fit	H-L test: ${\chi }_{\left(8\right)}^2$=10.090; p-value: 0.259		F 26,7620 = 41.329; p-value < 0.001
	Omnibus test: ${\chi }_{\left(26\right)}^2$=1025.05; p-value < 0.001
R2 value	0.125		0.124

*** P < 0.001; ** P < 0.01; * <0.05