Table 3 Community- level variables extracted from EDHS 2016 data set for studying factors associated with LBW
Variable | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
Place of residence | The geographic area of residence at the time of the survey | 0. Urban 1. Rural |
Region | Three categories were created: a small peripheral, a larger center, and a metropolitan area. Small periphery regions were characterized as Afar, Somalia, Benishangul, and Gambella The SNNPRs, Tigray, Amhara, and Oromia were categorized as major central areas. The administrative cities of Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, and the Harari region make up the metro areas | 0. Metro 1. Large central 2. Small peripheral |
Community Poverty [22] | Described as the percentage of women who lived in the cluster's poorest homes. The cluster's overall poverty can be determined by adding up the individual households with the lowest wealth indices If clusters contained more poor households than the national median proportion (30%), they were classified as high; if not, they were classified as low | 0. Low 1. High |
Community Education [23] | Described as the percentage of women in the cluster who attended primary, secondary, or higher education. The sum of each woman's primary, secondary, and higher education levels might reveal the cluster of women's overall educational achievement It was labelled as high if a cluster had a primary/secondary/higher education proportion greater than or equal to the national median proportion (7.7%), or low if not | 0. Low 1. High |