Table 6 Association of socio-demographic variables with anemia of women of reproductive age, Nepal, 2012 (n = 14,222)

Educational Status

        Illiterate

613 (21.3)

2720 (78.7)

0.7 (0.7,0.8)**

        Informal education

382 (22.5)

1652 (77.5)

0.7 (0.6,0.8)**

        Formal education

2422 (31.4)

6433 (68.6)

1.0

Age (in years)

        15–24

1809 (31.3)

4945 (68.7)

1.3 (1.0,1.3)**

        25–34

1048 (26.8)

3386 (73.2)

1.1 (1.0,1.2)**

        35–49

560 (22.1)

2474 (77.9)

1.0

Employment

        Unemployed

1272 (29.8)

3369 (70.2)

1.6 (1.4,1.8)**

        Formal employment

149 (25.4)

523 (74.6)

1.4 (1.2,1.7)**

        Agriculture

1957 (27.7)

6755 (72.3)

1.7 (1.5,2.0)**

        Manual work

39 (20.0)

158 (80.0)

1.0

Ethnicity

        Dalit

363 (28.2)

1083 (71.8)

0.8 (0.7,0.9)**

        Disadvantaged janajati

1177 (28.3)

4143 (71.7)

0.9 (0.8,0.9)**

        Disadvantaged non-dalit Terai caste

198 (17.9)

916 (82.1)

0.5 (0.5,0.6)**

        Religious minorities

19 (18.9)

72 (81.1)

0.5 (0.4,0.6)**

        Relatively advantaged janajati

242 (21.3)

1003 (78.7)

0.6 (0.5,0.6)**

        Upper caste

1418 (32.1)

3588 (67.9)

1.0

Pregnancy

        No

3011 (26.1)

10480 (73.9)

0.2 (0.2,0.3)**

        Yes

406 (62.4)

325 (37.6)

1.0

Ecological regions

        Mountain

20 (2.2)

881 (97.8)

0.05 (0.04,0.07)**

        Hill

2165 (30.2)

6167 (69.8)

1.9 (0.9,1.0)

        Terai

1232 (27.6)

3757 (72.4)

1.0