Prevalence and Determinants of Low Birth Weight in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Meta-regression analysis of the different study-level covariates explaining possible sources of heterogeneity.

Study characteristics	Coefficient	value
Publication year	0.227	0.162
Sample size	<0.001	0.578
Cohort study design	−1.219	0.671
Addis Ababa city	−4.45	0.595
Amhara	2.042	0.791
Oromia	1.938	0.790
SNNPR	−3.157	0.681
Tigray	2.158	0.779
National study	6.344	0.451