Determinants Of Nutrition And Health Status Of Children In Ethiopia A Multivariate Multilevel Linear Regression Analysis

This study is an attempt to study the determinants of health/nutritional status of children inrnEthiopia using data collected in Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey EDHS (2005). Thernsurvey collected information from a total of 5,280 children aged less than 59 months out ofrnwhich 3108 children were considered in this study.rnDepending on our objectives descriptive, multiple linear regression, multilevel linear regressionrnand multivariate multilevel linear regression statistical techniques were used for data analysisrnusing socio-economic, demographic and health and environmental variable as explanatoryrnvariables and measures of health/nutrition status with underweight and stunting as responsernvariables.rnThe results of the analysis show that place of residence, employment status of mother,rnemployment status of partners, age of the child, educational status of mothers, diarrhea,rnhousehold economic level and source of drinking water were found to be the most importantrndeterminants of health/nutritional status of children.

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