Table 6.

Relationship between explanatory variables and soil-transmitted helminthic infections among school children in Jaragedo town, South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia.

Term	Parameter estimate	Standard error	χ 2	P value
Intercept	0.388	0.599	0.42	0.5172
Age (11 to 14)	−0.769	0.467	2.71	0.0994
Age (15 to 16)	0.308	0.499	0.38	0.5376
Age (17 and above)	1.120	0.544	4.23	0.0397
Sex (female)	0.050	0.173	0.09	0.7702
Residence (rural)	−0.377	0.220	2.93	0.0870
Grade (1 to 4)	0.514	0.600	0.73	0.3919
Grade (5 to 8)	0.450	0.364	1.53	0.2156
Father education level (Church education)	−0.211	0.581	0.13	0.7155
Father education level (college and above)	−0.903	0.984	0.84	0.3591
Father education level (illiterate)	0.703	0.429	2.68	0.1016
Father education level (primary education)	−0.331	0.445	0.56	0.4560
Father's occupation (farming)	−0.236	0.262	0.81	0.3680
Hand washing after toile (no)	−0.127	0.344	0.14	0.7104
Eating unwashed vegetable (no)	0.146	0.226	0.42	0.5166
Eating raw meat (no)	0.125	0.184	0.46	0.4959
Shoe wearing (always)	2.276	0.316	51.67	<0.0001
Shoe wearing (no at all)	−1.588	0.402	15.61	<0.0001
Water source (both tap and river)	0.218	0.243	0.81	0.3691
Water source (river)	−0.706	0.328	4.63	0.0314
Family economic status (middle income)	−0.146	0.360	0.17	0.6836
Family economic status (poor)	0.039	0.560	0.01	0.9431
Family economic status (rich)	−0.463	0.460	1.01	0.3142
Family size (5 members)	−0.057	0.290	0.04	0.8425
Family size (6 members)	−0.126	0.285	0.20	0.6582
Family size (7 and above)	0.351	0.365	0.92	0.3364
Waste disposal system (burry underground)	−0.658	0.302	4.72	0.0298
Toilet type (common pit latrine)	−1.167	0.582	4.02	0.0450
Toilet type (open space)	1.194	0.651	3.37	0.0666
Nail cleanness (not clean)	−0.304	0.192	2.50	0.1135