Table 3.
Association of moderate underweight with conflict status, child-, household- and cluster- and state-level characteristics
| Model (1) OR (95%CI) |
Model (2) OR (95%CI) |
Model (3) OR (95%CI) |
Model (4) OR (95%CI) |
Model (5) OR (95%CI) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conflict intensity level/year of eruption | |||||
| Conflict-free (ref) | |||||
| Low intensity/2005 (LI/2005) | 1.34* (1.03–1.74) | 1.33+ (1.00–1.78) | 0.99 (0.78–1.25) | 1.05 (0.84–1.32) | |
| High intensity/2011 (HI/2011) | 1.22 (0.94–1.59) | 1.24 (0.92–1.68) | 0.90 (0.71–1.14) | 0.96 (0.76–1.20) | |
| High intensity/2003 (HI/2003) | 1.27* (1.03–1.56) | 1.29* (1.02–1.63) | 0.83+ (0.68–1.02) | 0.96 (0.77–1.22) | |
| Child age | 2.24*** (1.93–2.59) | 2.26*** (1.95–2.62) | 2.26*** (1.95–2.62) | ||
| Presence of diarrhoea | |||||
| No (ref) | |||||
| Yes | 1.42*** (1.25–1.62) | 1.41*** (1.24–1.60) | 1.41*** (1.24–1.60) | ||
| Mother education | |||||
| None | 1.22+ (0.99–1.51) | 1.17 (0.94–1.44) | |||
| Primary | 1.12 (0.93–1.34) | 1.10 (0.91–1.32) | |||
| Secondary + (ref) | |||||
| Household wealth index quintile | |||||
| Poorest | 2.76*** (1.99–3.84) | 1.97*** (1.35–2.87) | |||
| Second | 2.43*** (1.80–3.29) | 1.83*** (1.31–2.57) | |||
| Middle | 2.05*** (1.56–2.69) | 1.70*** (1.27–2.28) | |||
| Fourth | 1.73*** (1.36–2.20) | 1.58*** (1.24–2.01) | |||
| Richest (ref) | |||||
| Food consumption profile (FCP) | |||||
| Poor consumption | 1.02 (0.74–1.41) | 1.05 (0.76–1.45) | |||
| Borderline consumption | 0.96 (0.81–1.15) | 0.98 (0.82–1.16) | |||
| Acceptable consumption (ref) | |||||
| Area of residence | |||||
| Rural | 1.56*** (1.29–1.88) | ||||
| Urban (ref) | |||||
| Intercept | 0.27*** (0.24–0.30) | 0.23*** (0.20–0.27) | 0.09*** (0.07–0.11) | 0.05*** (0.03–0.06) | 0.04*** (0.03–0.06) |
| State-level variance | 0.03 (0.01–0.10) | 0.01 (0.001–0.10) | 0.02 (0.003–0.01) | 0.003 (5e−06-1.53) | 7.66e−35- |
| Cluster-level variance | 0.31*** (0.23–0.43) | 0.31*** (0.23–0.43) | 0.36*** (0.27–0.50) | 0.25*** (0.17–0.36) | 0.22*** (0.14–0.33) |
| Household-level variance | 0.48*** (0.26–0.86) | 0.47*** (0.26–0.86) | 0.59*** (0.35–1.01) | 0.59*** (0.35–1.01) | 0.57*** (0.33–0.98) |
| State-level ICC | 0.01 | 0.003 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 1.88e-35 |
| Cluster-level ICC | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
| Household-level ICC | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.23 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| Observations | 9080 | 9080 | 9080 | 9080 | 9080 |
| LR chi2 | 7.702 | 216.864 | 303.887 | 329.704 | |
Values are relative odds ratios; 95% confidence intervals in brackets unless stated otherwise
The dependent variable: moderate underweight vs. normal
+p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Model (1): the empty model
Model (2): adjusted for conflict intensity
Model (3): adjusted for conflict intensity + child-level predictors
Model (4): adjusted for conflict intensity + child-level predictors + household-level predictors
Model (5): adjusted for conflict intensity + child-level predictors + household-level predictors + cluster-level predictors + state-level predictors