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 3 Correlation of child anthropometric indices with selected socio-economic and demographic variables and child feeding practices in north-central Ethiopia May 2018

Variables		WHZ	HAZ	BAZ	WAZ	MUACZ
Age of HHH (years)	Correlation coefficient	− 0.06	0.17	− 0.065	0.144	0.095
Age of HHH (years)	p value	0.29	0.001	0.25	0.002	0.04
Family size	Correlation coefficient	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.10	0.06
Family size	p value	0.59	0.60	0.73	0.02	0.20
Age of child (in months)	Correlation coefficient	0.18	− 0.20	0.14	− 0.19	0.10
Age of child (in months)	p value	0.002	0.0001	0.011	0.0001	0.025
Wealth index score	Correlation coefficient	− 0.07	0.03	− 0.07	− 0.09	− 0.08
Wealth index score	p value	0.19	0.53	0.20	0.04	0.09
Food insecurity score	Correlation coefficient	− 0.11	0.11	− 0.13	− 0.10	− 0.05
Food insecurity score	p value	0.04	0.050	0.025	0.03	0.25
Child dietary diversity score	Correlation coefficient	0.30	− 0.18	0.31	0.20	0.11
Child dietary diversity score	p value	0.0001	0.001	0.0001	0.0001	0.014
Animal source food score	Correlation coefficient	0.23	− 0.15	0.24	0.16	0.17
	p value	0.0001	0.006	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001
	N	317	340	315	474	480

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