Table 3.

Relationship between intestinal protozoan parasitic infections and explanatory variables among school children in Jaragedo town, South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia.

Term	Parameter estimate	Standard error	χ 2	P value
Intercept	0.317	0.491	0.42	0.518
Age (11 to 14)	0.433	0.284	2.32	0.127
Age (15 to 16)	−0.309	0.300	1.07	0.301
Age (17 and above)	0.320	0.367	0.76	0.382
Sex (female)	0.056	0.117	0.23	0.629
Residence (rural)	0.123	0.152	0.66	0.417
Grade (1 to 4)	0.542	0.415	1.70	0.191
Grade (5 to 8)	0.190	0.242	0.61	0.433
Father education level (Church education)	−0.329	0.439	0.56	0.452
Father education level (college and above)	1.119	0.927	1.46	0.227
Father education level ( illiterate)	−0.679	0.325	4.35	0.036
Father education level (primary education)	−0.036	0.354	0.01	0.917
Father's occupation (farming)	0.120	0.167	0.52	0.471
Hand washing after toile (no)	−0.166	0.244	0.46	0.496
Eating unwashed vegetable (no)	0.149	0.154	0.93	0.334
Eating raw meat (no)	−0.347	0.128	7.33	0.006
Shoe wearing (always)	−0.421	0.249	2.85	0.091
Shoe wearing (no at all)	−0.088	0.354	0.06	0.803
Water source (both tap and river)	−0.295	0.174	2.87	0.090
Water source (river)	−0.875	0.254	11.84	<0.0001
Family economic status (middle-income)	0.484	0.255	3.60	0.057
Family economic status (poor)	0.453	0.377	1.44	0.229
Family economic status (rich)	0.179	0.322	0.31	0.578
Family size (5 members)	0.324	0.200	2.62	0.105
Family size (6 members)	−0.270	0.192	1.97	0.160
Family size (7 and above)	−0.121	0.225	0.29	0.589
Waste disposal system ( burry underground)	0.281	0.176	2.56	0.109
Toilet type (common pit latrine)	0.098	0.562	0.03	0.860
Toilet type (open space)	−0.170	0.462	0.14	0.711
Nail cleanness (not trimmed and not clean)	−0.030	0.131	0.05	0.815