District Effect Appraisal in East Sub-Saharan Africa: Combating Childhood Anaemia

Table 1

Adjusted odds ratio estimates (AOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the fixed effects.

	AOR (95% CI)
Main effects
Gender (ref = male)
Female	0.876 (0.820, 0.935)
Malaria RDT result (ref = negative)
Positive	4.315 (3.895, 4.781)
Household size	1.014 (1.003, 1.025)
Type of place of residence (ref = urban)
Rural	0.738 (0.582, 0.936)
Mother’s education level (ref = no education)
Primary	0.843 (0.760, 0.935)
Secondary and higher	0.794 (0.693, 0.911)
Unknown	0.845 (0.742, 0.962)
Gender of household head (ref = male)
Female	1.016 (0.939, 1.100)
Type of toilet facility (ref = no facilities)
PIT latrine	0.780 (0.694, 0.877)
Flush toilet	0.725 (0.591, 0.889)
Others	0.663 (0.357, 1.230)
Wealth index Z-score	0.847 (0.797, 0.901)
Country (ref = Malawi)
Kenya	0.316 (0.160, 0.622)
Tanzania	0.639 (0.355, 1.150)
Uganda	0.433 (0.214, 0.874)
Cluster altitude (in 100 metres)	0.986 (0.969, 1.004)
EVI (in 1000 s)	1.026 (0.865, 1.217)
LST	1.015 (0.969, 1.063)
Interaction effects
Type of place of residence and country (ref = urban and Malawi)
Rural and Kenya	1.376 (1.037, 1.825)
Rural and Tanzania	1.237 (0.942, 1.624)
Rural and Uganda	1.119 (0.826, 1.514)

Significant at 5% level of significance.