Undernutrition and Its Correlates among Children of 3–9 Years of Age Residing in Slum Areas of Bhubaneswar, India

Table 3

Multiple logistic regression model showing association between wasting among slum children and various factors.

Independent variable	Dependent variable (wasting)		value^*
	Normal = reference category
	Age (in years) of child
3–6	−0.762	0.467	0.220
6–9^R
Gender of child
Female	−0.480	0.619	0.053
Male^R
Birth order of child
First	−1.059	0.347	0.013
Second	0.378	1.460	0.392
Third or more^R
Initiation of breastfeeding
Within 1 hr	−1.445	0.236	0.035
Between 1 and 24 hrs	−0.713	0.490	0.151
After 24 hrs^R
Mother’s age (in years) at birth of child
≤20	0.190	1.209	0.522
21–30	0.174	1.190	0.534
≥30^R
Mother’s education
Illiterate	1.179	3.250	0.024
Primary	1.136	3.115	0.024
Middle	0.558	1.747	0.329
High school and above^R
Father’s education
Illiterate	1.036	2.817	0.208
Primary	0.835	2.304	0.303
Middle	−0.114	0.892	0.792
High school and above^R
Overcrowding
Absent	−0.499	0.607	0.147
Present^R
Drinking water storage
Satisfactory	−0.909	0.403	0.099
Unsatisfactory^R

Note: R = reference category, = regression coefficient (log odds ratio), and = odds ratio.
Model fit statistics: pseudo- squares—Cox and Snell = 0.188, Nagelkerke = 0.283, and Mcfadden = 0.191; classification table reports that the overall expected model performance is 81.1%; that is, 81.1% of the cases can be expected to be classified correctly by the model.