Table 6 Regression output: the crude and adjusted association between community-level maternal literacy and weight-for-age z-scores (N = 5474)

	Model A			Model B			Model C
	Coeff	SE	p	Coeff	SE	p	Coeff	SE	p
Constant	−1.944	0.061	0.000	−1.753	0.128	0.000	−1.623	0.127	0.000
Community-level maternal literacy (0–1)	0.672	0.092	0.000	0.262	0.122	0.031	0.083	0.122	0.496
Independent risk factors
Age of child (months)				−0.001	0.000	0.000	−0.001	0.000	0.001
Sex of child (0, female; 1, male)				−0.111	0.025	0.000	−0.107	0.025	0.000
Confounders
Age of mother (years)				0.001	0.002	0.770	0.000	0.002	0.942
Housing quality score (household wealth) (0–1)				0.227	0.054	0.000	0.120	0.055	0.028
Household land ownership (0, no; 1, yes)				0.077	0.034	0.024	0.056	0.034	0.096
Adults in household (no.)				0.015	0.008	0.052	0.013	0.008	0.101
Children in household (no.)				−0.049	0.014	0.001	−0.041	0.014	0.005
Economic sectors household involved with (no.)				0.017	0.018	0.339	0.010	0.018	0.586
Urbanity (0, rural; 1, urban)				0.292	0.082	0.000	0.246	0.078	0.002
Country (0, Vietnam; 1, India)				−0.255	0.085	0.003	−0.349	0.083	0.000
Maternal education
Primary							0.044	0.038	0.242
Secondary							0.074	0.043	0.089
Higher							0.238	0.051	0.000
Paternal education
Primary							0.017	0.038	0.660
Secondary							0.062	0.041	0.133
Higher							0.166	0.043	0.000