Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Underweight and Stunting among Adolescents of Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Determinants of nutrition status of adolescents in terms of height for age 𝑍-scores in Jimma zone, south west Ethiopia, 2011.

Variables	Univariate linear regression				Multivariable linear regression
	𝛽	95% CI		𝑃 value	𝛽	95% CI		𝑃 value
Residence in semiurban	0.0041	−0.1065	0.1148	0.9417	−0.0487	−0.1794	0.0819	0.4645
Residence in rural	−0.2136	−0.3178	−0.1093	0.0001	0.1136	−0.0495	0.2768	0.1721
Sex	−0.1473	−0.2464	−0.0482	0.0036	−0.1595	−0.2606	−0.0585	0.0020
Age in years	0.0638	0.0268	0.1007	0.0007	−0.0320	−0.0739	0.0100	0.1350
Highest grade completed	0.0917	0.0732	0.1101	0.0000	0.1066	0.0803	0.1328	0.0000
Private school	−0.3180	−0.7355	0.0996	0.1355	−0.1189	−0.5510	0.3133	0.5897
Community school	−0.8765	−1.5391	−0.2140	0.0095	−1.2114	−1.9757	−0.4471	0.0019
Other type of school	−0.5280	−1.0622	0.0062	0.0527	−0.0004	−0.5486	0.5478	0.9988
Household income	0.0006	0.0003	0.0008	0.0000	0.0005	0.0002	0.0007	0.0014
Job	0.1258	0.0159	0.2356	0.0248	0.2198	0.1051	0.3345	0.0002
Abdominal pain	−0.1451	−0.2514	−0.0388	0.0075	−0.1328	−0.2401	−0.0255	0.0153
Household size	−0.0254	−0.0398	−0.0110	0.0006	−0.0224	−0.0384	−0.0064	0.0062
Mothers primary education	−0.0649	−0.1720	0.0422	0.2347	−0.0963	−0.2222	0.0296	0.1336
Mothers secondary education	0.2982	0.1389	0.4574	0.0002	0.0747	−0.1248	0.2741	0.4628
Fathers no education	−0.0874	−0.1959	0.0211	0.1144	0.0716	−0.0585	0.2018	0.2805
Fathers secondary education	0.1536	0.0337	0.2735	0.0121	−0.0804	−0.2253	0.0646	0.2770

Source: Jimma Longitudinal Family of Youth; Round 2, 2006-2007.
CI: confidence interval.