Table 3 Significant (p < 0.05), standardized correlation factors (betas, ß) of multivariable regression analysis of z-scores of children’s height (HAZ) and body-mass index (BAZ) and social indicators of their mothers living in the Lalitpur district, Nepal (spring 2014) in the minimum adequate model (MAM)
HAZ | BAZ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Effect | Beta (ß) | Standard error (ß) | P value | Beta (ß) | Standard error (ß) | P value |
Number of children/family | −0.135 | 0.062 | 0.029 | |||
Number of boys/family | 0.185 | 0.087 | 0.035 | |||
Education level of the mother | 0.182 | 0.059 | 0.002 | −0.147 | 0.062 | 0.018 |
Mother is unemployed | −0.148 | 0.060 | 0.014 | |||
Mother has a paid (mostly hard labour) job | −0.168 | 0.061 | 0.006 | |||
The family owns land | 0.143 | 0.060 | 0.018 | −0.167 | 0.061 | 0.006 |
Time passed since last pregnancy | −0.213 | 0.060 | <0.001 | |||
Investigated child is a girl | 0.314 | 0.086 | <0.001 | |||