Table 7.

Multiple linear regressions to identify factors that affect food and nutritional knowledge of reproductive-age women in rural and urban areas of Sri Lanka (N = 400).

Variables	β	SE	VIF	t	p-Value
Age	0.256	0.050	1.388	5.091	0.000 *
Area	0.062	0.095	2.258	1.125	0.049 **
Marital status	−0.127	0.012	3.574	−2.391	0.115
Family size	0.542	0.089	1.809	6.092	0.000 *
Main occupation	0.352	0.049	1.970	−2.335	0.029 **
Monthly income	0.406	0.040	1.417	2.007	0.001 *
BMI	0.118	0.011	1.534	2.391	0.027 **
Residency period in living area	−0.002	0.022	2.433	−0.242	0.966
Educational level	0.469	0.141	1.505	3.330	0.001 *
Attitudes towards nutrition	0.049	0.086	2.510	−0.573	0.000 *
Food and nutrition practice	0.208	0.128	1.216	−1.627	0.020 **
Nutrition-related behaviour	−0.689	0.144	2.596	−4.773	0.273
Perception of food quality	−0.105	0.303	2.916	−0.346	0.495

Abbreviation: β-Beta weights, SE-Std. Error, ** Correlation significant at 0.01 level (two-tailed); * correlation significant at 0.05 level (two-tailed), VIF: variance Inflation Factor.