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

∗Nonsignificant from the multivariate logistic regression (backward LR method).