Table 3.
Multivariate associations [Adjusted odds ratio (AOR)] for current breastfeeding for children under 25 months of age in Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2012 and 2017–18
| Sociodemographic characteristics | Natal-Postnatal characteristics |
Overall | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | ||
| Survey year | 2012 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 2017–18 | 0.74 (0.61, 0.90) | 0.70 (0.54, 0.89) | ||
| Maternal tobacco (water pipe, cigarette) smoking | Neither | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Water pipe | 0.66 (0.42, 1.05) | 0.81 (0.52, 1.28) | 0.76 (0.48, 1.21) | |
| Cigarette | 0.53 (0.32, 0.89) | 0.57 (0.33, 0.99) | 0.51 (0.30, 0.87) | |
| Both | 0.62 (0.23, 1.64) | 0.67 (0.23, 1.97) | 0.70 (0.25, 1.92) | |
| Region | Central | 1.23 (1.01, 1.49) | 1.30 (1.07, 1.59) | |
| North | 1.17 (0.97, 1.40) | 1.17 (0.98, 1.42) | ||
| South | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Place of residence | Urban | 1.11 (0.91, 1.34) | 1.09 (0.89, 1.32) | |
| Rural | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Wealth index | Poorest | 1.31 (1.00, 1.73) | 1.28 (0.97, 1.69) | |
| Poorer | 1.39 (1.07, 1.81) | 1.42 (1.10, 1.83) | ||
| Middle | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Richer | 1.15 (0.86, 1.54) | 1.08 (0.80, 1.44) | ||
| Richest | 1.26 (0.81, 1.96) | 1.22 (0.80, 1.89) | ||
| Maternal age, years | < 20 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 20–29 | 1.29 (0.77, 2.14) | 1.11 (0.62, 1.99) | ||
| 30–39 | 1.27 (0.75, 2.14) | 1.02 (0.56, 1.88) | ||
| ≥ 40 | 1.50 (0.81, 2.78) | 1.12 (0.56, 2.27) | ||
| Maternal highest educational level | No education | 0.90 (0.46, 1.76) | 0.97 (0.44, 2.11) | |
| Primary | 1.35 (0.83, 2.19) | 1.37 (0.79, 2.36) | ||
| Secondary | 1.11 (0.89, 1.38) | 1.09 (0.86, 1.38) | ||
| Higher | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Mothers having a job | No | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Yes | 0.52 (0.39, 0.70) | 0.55 (0.41, 0.75) | ||
| Wanted last child | Wanted then | 0.87 (0.59, 1.28) | 0.95 (0.63, 1.41) | |
| Wanted later | 0.84 (0.55, 1.29) | 0.87 (0.55, 1.36) | ||
| Wanted no more | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Infant characteristics | ||||
| Preceding birth interval, month | first pregnancy | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| < 24 | 1.01 (0.74, 1.37) | 0.97 (0.70, 1.33) | ||
| 24–47 | 1.33 (1.00, 1.77) | 1.29 (0.95, 1.74) | ||
| ≥48 | 1.28 (0.94, 1.73) | 1.31 (0.94, 1.82) | ||
| Antenatal care, n | < 4 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 4–7 | 1.01 (0.63, 1.62) | 1.01 (0.61, 1.65) | ||
| ≥8 | 0.91 (0.57, 1.42) | 0.96 (0.59, 1.55) | ||
| Delivery place | Public | 0.96 (0.77, 1.20) | 0.94 (0.74, 1.18) | |
| Private | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Delivery type | Vaginal | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Cesarean | 0.94 (0.74, 1.19) | 0.98 (0.77, 1.24) | ||
| Birthweight, gram | < 2500 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| ≥ 2500 | 1.45 (1.15, 1.83) | 1.49 (1.18, 1.89) | ||
| Infant age, months | < 6 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 6–11 | 0.31 (0.23, 0.42) | 0.33 (0.25, 0.45) | 0.32 (0.24, 0.43) | |
| 12–17 | 0.11 (0.08, 0.14) | 0.11 (0.08, 0.15) | 0.10 (0.08, 0.14) | |
| 18–24 | 0.03 (0.02, 0.04) | 0.04 (0.03, 0.05) | 0.03 (0.02, 0.05) | |
| Infant sex | Male | 1.13 (0.94, 1.36) | 1.11 (0.92, 1.34) | |
| Female | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Early initiation of breastfeeding | Within 1 h | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Later | 1.05 (0.85, 1.30) | 0.88 (0.69, 1.13) | ||
| Prelacteal feeding | given something | 0.82 (0.66, 1.01) | 0.84 (0.68, 1.04) | |
| given nothing | 1.00 | 1.00 |