Research Article
Availability of Adequately Iodized Salt at Household Level and Associated Factors in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 3
Factors associated with availability of adequately iodized salt at household level in Gondar town, 2012.
| Variables | Iodine level | Crude OR (95% CI) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | ≥15 ppm | <15 ppm |
| Educational level | | | | | Formal education | 193 | 399 | 2.088 (1.427, 3.056) | * | No formal education | 41 | 177 | 1 | | Occupation | | | | | Housewife | 108 | 345 | 1 | | Daily labor | 28 | 88 | 1.016 (.631, 1.638) | * | Merchant | 31 | 63 | 1.572 (.971, 2.543) | * | Government employee | 46 | 33 | 4.453 (2.710, 7.317) | * | Student | 8 | 19 | 1.345 (.573, 3.159) | * | Others | 13 | 28 | 1.483 (.742, 2.964) | * | Types of salt used | | | | | Packed salt | 109 | 32 | 14.82 (9.52, 23.26) | 9.749 (5.739, 16.56) | Nonpacked salt | 125 | 544 | 1 | 1 | Duration of salt storage | | | | | ≤2 months | 228 | 520 | 4.092 (1.738, 9.634) | 3.604 (1.402, 9.267) | >2 months | 6 | 56 | 1 | 1 | Exposure to sunlight | | | | | Yes | 12 | 172 | 1 | 1 | No | 222 | 404 | 7.876 (4.290, 14.462) | 7.258 (3.733, 14.112) | Knowledge | | | | | Good | 115 | 89 | 5.288 (3.758, 7.442) | 1.938 (1.231, 3.05) | Poor | 119 | 487 | 1 | 1 |
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Nonsignificant from the multivariate logistic regression (backward LR method).
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