Effect of Women’s Decision-Making Autonomy on Infant’s Birth Weight in Rural Bangladesh

Table 3

Association of BW with decision-making autonomy using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with crude and adjusted models; 𝐵 (coefficient) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).

	Model with autonomy only		Full model^1
	𝐵	(95% CI)	𝐵	(95% CI)
Decision-making autonomy (Tertile)
Highest (Reference)	—	—	—	—
Average	−46.8	(−92.8, −0.96)*	−30.0	(−75.2, 15.1)
Lowest	−87.9	(−132.6, −43.2)**	−68.8	(−114.4, −23.2)**

1Adjusted for maternal age, BMI, asset scores, maternal education, and husband’s education.
^∗𝑃 value at <0.05, ^∗∗𝑃 value at <0.01.