Current Level and Correlates of Traditional Cooking Energy Sources Utilization in Urban Settings in the Context of Climate Change and Health, Northwest Ethiopia: A Case of Debre Markos Town

Table 4

Correlates of traditional cooking energy utilization and each explanatory variable, Debre Markos, northwest Ethiopia, May 2013.

Traditional cooking energy utilization
Explanatory variable	Category	Yes (%)	No (%)	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	𝑃 value
Income	>1001	149 (35)	2 (1)	1.00	1.00
	≤1001	254 (60)	18 (4)	5.28 (1.208, 23.072)	5.14 (1.129, 23.415)	0.024
Knowledge of effects on health	Yes	176 (41)	2 (0.5)	1.00	1.00
	No	227 (54)	18 (4.5)	6.97 (1.598, 30.473)	7.56 (1635, 34.926)	0.01
Knowledge of effects on the environment	Yes	192 (45)	15 (4)	1.00	1.00
	No	213 (50)	3 (1)	6.23 (1.797, 21.581)	6.68 (1.80, 24.385)	0.004
Expense perception	Electricity, biogas, LPG	204 (48)	15 (4)	2.93 (1.044, 8.204)	3.27 (1.057, 10.115)	0.04
	Wood, animal dung, leaves, charcoal	199 (47)	5 (1)	1.00	1.00
Easily available cooking energy source	Electricity, biogas, LPG	100 (24)	10 (2)	1.00	1.00
	Wood, animal dung, leaves, charcoal	303 (72)	10 (2)	3.03 (1.266, 7.491)	2.763 (1.011, 7.628)	0.04