Women Malnutrition in Ethiopia
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2014-06
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Addis Abeba university
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Ethiopia, a country with an area of 1.14 million km2 is located in the region that is known
as the Horn of Africa. Malnutrition is a serious problem in Ethiopia, and women and
children are the most affected segments of the population. Women are more likely to
suffer from malnutrition than men are, for some potential reasons. Given this background
the major objective of this study is to identify factors affecting women malnutrition in
Ethiopia. In this study the data source was the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey
conducted in 2011(EDHS 2011) by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) with a total of
16,515 women of age 15-49 years. In this study 8,278 non-pregnant and non-postpartum
women are considered. Descriptive statistics, binary logistic regression and multilevel
logistic regression are used for statistical analysis. The descriptive result revealed that
about 28.7% of the women were malnourished while 71.3% were not malnourished.
Logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate the effect of predicators on
women malnutrition. Accordingly, place of residence, region, education level, economic
status, source of drinking water, toilet facilities, occupation of women and partner's
occupation were found to be the significant determinants for women malnutrition.
Moreover, multilevel modeling was used to analyze nested sources of variability in
hierarchical data, taking in to account the variability associated within each level of the
hierarchy. The estimates of the multilevel model showed that variables that are reported
to be significant in logistic regression analysis were also found to be significant. The
effect of these significant variables is the same all region in Ethiopia but the effect of
economic status and education levels are not the same all regions in Ethiopia
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Malnutrition