Table 1.
Weighted proportion and bi-variable analysis of associated factors of minimum dietary diversity among infants and young children in Ethiopia, EDHS-2016.
| Variables | Minimum Dietary Diversity |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didn't meet N (%) | Met N (%) | ||
| Maternal education | |||
| No education | 1625 (90.29) | 175 (9.71) | 1 |
| Primary | 795 (86.72) | 122 (13.28) | 0.00 |
| Secondary | 123 (78.76) | 33 (21.24) | |
| Higher | 50 (55.63) | 40 (44.37) | |
| Sex of household head | |||
| Male | 2226 (87.44) | 320 (12.56) | 1 |
| Female | 366 (88.02) | 50 (11.98) | 0.08 |
| Maternal occupation | |||
| No work | 1545 (89.40) | 183 (10.60) | 0.00 |
| Non-agricultural | 486 (80.47) | 118 (19.53) | 1 |
| Agricultural | 562 (89.13) | 68 (10.87) | 0.01 |
| Father's occupation | |||
| No work | 410 (85.91) | 67 (14.09) | 0.00 |
| Non-agricultural | 575 (83.53) | 113 (16.47) | 1 |
| Agricultural | 1609 (89.48) | 189 (10.52) | 0.00 |
| Antenatal care follow-up | |||
| No visit | 906 (88.60) | 117 (11.40) | 1 |
| 1-2 visits | 813 (89.98) | 90 (10.02) | 0.00 |
| 4 and above visits | 873 (84.32) | 162 (15.68) | 0.00 |
| Nutrition counseling's | |||
| No | 1449 (87.51) | 207 (12.49) | 1 |
| Yes | 1143 (87.54) | 263 (12.46) | 0.00 |
| Media exposure | |||
| No | 2585 (88.10) | 349 (11.90) | 1 |
| Yes | 8 (28.08) | 20 (71.92) | 0.00 |
| Family size | |||
| <5 | 786 (85.48) | 134 (14.3) | 1 |
| 5–9 | 1656 (88.54) | 214 (11.46) | 0.02 |
| 10 and above | 150 (87.39) | 22 (12.61) | 0.50 |
| Place of delivery | |||
| Home | 1696 (90.28) | 182 (9.72) | 1 |
| Health facility | 897 (82.74) | 187 (17.26) | 0.00 |
| Wealth index | |||
| Poorest | 641 (93.53) | 44 (6.47) | 1 |
| Poorer | 559 (89.85) | 63 (10.15) | 0.00 |
| Middle | 576 (88.21) | 77 (11.79) | |
| Richer | 473 (87.44) | 68 (12.56) | |
| Richest | 344 (74.57) | 117 (25.43) | |
| Place of residence | |||
| Urban | 262 (72.11) | 101 (27.89) | 1 |
| Rural | 2330 (89.68) | 268 (10.32) | 0.00 |
| Region | |||
| Pastoralist | 174 (93.97) | 11 (6.03) | 1 |
| City | 69 (68.44) | 32 (31.46) | 0.00 |
| Agrarian | 2350 (87.80) | 327 (12.20) | 0.03 |
| Community poverty | |||
| Low | 1392 (84.16) | 262 (15.84) | 1 |
| High | 1201 (91.78) | 107 (8.22) | 0.000 |