Food insecurity, school absenteeism and educational attainment of adolescents in Jimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia: a longitudinal study

Table 3 Predictors of highest grade completed§ by adolescents in Southwest Ethiopia

Predictors	Bivariate		Multivariable^¶
	β	P	β^∫	P
Female gender	-0.21	0.083	-	-
Age in completed years	0.76	< 0.001	0.66	< 0.001
Adolescent food insecurity	-0.45	0.003	-0.44	< 0.001
Severe household food insecurity	-0.63	< 0.001	-0.41	< 0.001
The highest grade the adolescent aspires to complete	0.30	< 0.001	0.17	< 0.001
Residence in semi urban area*,^f	0.70	< 0.001	-0.92	< 0.001
Residence in rural area^f	-3.04	< 0.001	-2.70	< 0.001
Gender of the head of the household	0.77	< 0.001	-0.10	0.402
Household income	0.01	< 0.001	0.00	0.235

^§The highest grade completed in school refers to the grade attained 1 year after the collection of data on predictors.
^∫Coefficients as obtained from a multivariable linear regression model [adjusted R² = 0.48].
^¶Multivariable models with the highest grade completed by the adolescents as dependent variable and predictors with P < 0.05 of the bivariate model.
*Yebbu, Serbo & Dedo Towns.
Parameters estimates adjusted for gender, household income, gender of the household head and the tabulated variables.
^fUrban was used as a reference category in the multivariable model.

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