Infant and young child feeding practices in Ethiopia: analysis of socioeconomic disparities based on nationally representative data

Table 2 Results of bivariate proportional odds regression for predictors of Infant and Young Child Feeding practices, Ethiopia, n = 3240

			95% C.I. for OR
Characteristics	N (%)	OR	Lower	Upper	p-values
Sex of the child
Male ^RC	1556 (48.0)
Female	1684 (52.0)	0.920	0.760	1.115	0.397
Age of the child in months	14 (8) ^a	0.917	0.907	0.927	0.000
Education of mother
No education ^RC	1981 (61.1)
Primary level	983 (30.3)	1.798	1.435	2.253	0.000
Secondary and above	276 (8.5)	4.241	3.290	5.465	0.000
Education of father
No education ^RC	1547 (47.7)
Primary	1260 (38.9)	1.911	1.510	2.417	0.000
Secondary and higher	433 (13.4)	3.698	2.900	4.716	0.000
Presence of other under-5 children
No ^RC	1301 (40.1)
Yes	1940 (59.9)	0.670	0.553	0.813	0.000
Mother’s Work status
Working ^RC	870 (26.8)
Not working	2371 (73.2)	0.539	0.441	0.659	0.000
Children ever born
0–3 ^RC	1621 (50.0)
4–6	997 (30.8)	0.683	0.547	0.854	0.001
7 and above	622 (19.2)	0.560	0.418	0.751	0.000
Access to radio
Yes ^RC	919 (28.3)
No	2322 (71.7)	0.386	0.316	0.472	0.000
Religion
Orthodox ^RC	1129 (34.8)
Muslim	1315 (40.6)	0.740	0.597	0.917	0.006
Others	797 (24.6)	0.688	0.522	0.908	0.008
Type of family structure
Monogamy ^RC	2756 (85.1)
Polygamy	319 (9.8)	0.821	0.604	1.117	0.209
Health service utilization score	1 (3) ^a	1.369	1.281	1.463	0.000
Wealth index
Poor/ poorer ^RC	1432 (44.2)
Medium	705 (21.7)	2.206	1.637	2.972	0.000
Rich/ richer	1104 (34.1)	3.854	3.086	4.814	0.000
Place of residence
Urban ^RC	395 (12.2)
Rural	2845 (87.8)	0.288	0.235	0.354	0.000

IYCF index values before categorization: mean = 2.36; SD = 1.19; median = 2; minimum = 0; maximum = 6; IYCF score after categorization: Poor: 783 (24.2%); medium: 1967(60.7%); high: 490(15.1%)
^aMedian and IQR values; RC = Reference category

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