Research Article

Early Vocabulary Development in Rural and Urban Mozambique

Table 2

Results of a hierarchical logistic regression analysis for expressive vocabulary.

SE OR 95% CI OR
Lower Upper

Step ()
 (Intercept) −4.44 0.20
 Age in months 0.18 0.01 1.19 1.17 1.22
Step ()
 Gender 0.13 0.05 1.14 1.04 1.27
 Mother’s education (Low) −0.18 0.10 0.84 0.69 1.01
 Mother’s education (High) 0.49 0.11 1.62 1.31 2.01
Step ()
 Location (rural or urban) 0.53 0.07 1.69 1.47 1.95
Step ()
 Reported health problems −0.18 0.05 0.84 0.75 0.93
Step ()
 Secondary caregiver (sibling) −0.20 0.10 0.82 0.67 1.00
 Secondary caregiver (adult) −0.06 0.09 0.94 0.79 1.11

Test (Model ) df

Wald’s statistic 409.9 0.0 4
Goodness-of-fit 67.04 0.0 5

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