Child dietary diversity and food (in)security as a potential correlate of child anthropometric indices in the context of urban food system in the cases of north-central Ethiopia

Table 2 Associations of child dietary diversity scores and food insecurity condition with socio-demographic features of the respondents in north-central Ethiopia May 2018

Variables		Child dietary diversity score (CDDS)				Food security status
Variables		Poor (0–3)	Medium (4–5)	Good (6–7)	p value	Food secure	Food insecure	p value
Sex of household head	Male	23 (6.48)	112 (31.54)	220 (61.97)	0.0001	273 (77.12)	81 (22.9)	0.0001
Sex of household head	Female	33 (22)	62 (41.33)	55 (36.67)	0.0001	64 (42.67)	86 (57.33)	0.0001
Food security situation	Food secure	10 (3%)	93 (27.6%)	234 (69.4%)	0.0001
Food security situation	Food insecure	46 (27.5%)	81 (48.5%)	40 (24%)	0.0001
Sex of child	Male	20 (8.9%)	69 (30.8%)	136 (61.3%)	0.253	164 (74.2%)	58 (25.8%)	0.002
Sex of child	Female	36 (12.9%)	105 (37.6%)	139 (50.5%)	0.253	170 (60.9%)	109 (39.1%)	0.002
Mothers’ education	Formal	37 (7.5%)	150 (34.2%)	256 (58.3%)	0.0001	255 (78%)	72 (22%)	0.0001
	Informal	4 (14.3%)	15 (53.6%)	9 (32.1%)		9 (60%)	6 (40%)
	Non-educated	19 (50%)	9 (23.7%)	10 (26.3%)		9 (75%)	3 (25%)
Marital status	Divorced	9 (31%)	10 (34.5%)	10 (34.5%)	0.0001	2 (20%)	8 (80%)	0.0001
	Married	40 (8.7%)	158 (34.4%)	261 (56.9%)		320 (69.9%)	138 (30.1%)
	Unmarried	2 (28.6%)	3 (42.9%)	2 (28.6%)		5 (71.4%)	2 (28.6%)
	Widowed	5 (50%)	3 (30%)	2 (20%)		10 (34.5%)	19 (65.5%)
Wealth index	Poor	9 (5.2%)	57 (33.1%)	106 (61.6%)	0.0001	73 (36.3%)	128 (63.6%)	0.0001
	Medium	3 (1.6%)	51 (26.8%)	136 (71.6%)	0.0001	85 (79.4%)	22 (20.6%)
	Rich	44 (31.2%)	66 (46.8%)	31 (22%)		177 (91.2%)	17 (8.8%)

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