PREVALENCE AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILD BIRTH WEIGHT IN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

The study is conducted to determine prevalence and factor associated with child birth weight in Ethiopia. The main objective of this study is to examine the association between birth weights with predictor variables and to assess the factors associated with child birth weight in Ethiopia.In this study the data source is the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2016(EDHS 2016) by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) with a total of 2083 Childs. data obtained was processed and analyzed with aid of SPSS16 statistical software. Both descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze the data (i.e. Chi- square and Logistic regression analysis). As the result and discussion, 20.5% child has low birth weight, 69.0% child has normal birth weight and 10.5% child has high birth weight. In chi square test of association some variables such as sex, region, weight of mother, mother educational level, place of deliver, father educational level and mother occupation has ( p-value <0.05) was significant association with child birth weight. Also from the result of ordinal logistic regression model, the variables sex of child, region, weight of mother, father occupation, occupation of mother and mother educational level were found to be more significant association with birth weight of a child.