Predictor Wasting among children aged 6-59 months COR(95%CI) AOR(95% CI)   Wasted Not wasted     Occupation of father Farmer 53 348 1 1 Merchants 7 181 0.25(0.11-0.57)*** 0.20(0.07-0.56)** Gov’t Employee 15 240 0.41(0.23-0.74)** 0.40(0.20-0.87)* Breast feed the child tiil now yes 46 410 1 1 No 29 359 0.72(0.44-1.17) 0.24(0.07-0.80)* Notes: * = 0.05-0.01 ** = 0.01-0.001 ***=    < 0.001 NB: Backward stepwise LR method was used to select the above predictors. The model adequately fits the data at P-value = 0.45 (Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit test)

Table 6: Logistic regression analysis showing the association of selected socio-economic and child health and care practice with wasting, Lalibela Town, North Wollo Zone, ANRS, Northen Ethiopia, August 2012.