Determinants of early child development in rural Tanzania

Table 2 Univariate linear regression analysis of determinants of Bayley scores at 15 months of age in 137 children in rural Tanzania

Determinants at 6 months	Bayley scores at 15 months
	Cognitive score		Language score		Fine motor score		Gross motor score		Total score
	Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p
Gender^a	0.18	0.03	0.12	0.15	0.11	0.21	0.05	0.58	0.18	0.04
Tribe^b	0.04	0.69	0.14	0.12	0.08	0.36	0.02	0.84	0.10	0.26
Nutritional status
Length-for-age z-score	0.05	0.56	0.05	0.56	0.11	0.22	0.03	0.77	0.06	0.50
Weight-for-age z-score	0.01	0.95	0.05	0.60	0.01	0.91	0.18	0.03	− 0.03	0.73
Weight-for-length z-score	0.02	0.80	0.03	0.77	0.09	0.28	0.19	0.03	− 0.07	0.42
Socioeconomic status
WAMI index	0.17	0.05	0.02	0.83	0.04	0.67	0.06	0.46	0.12	0.18
Sanitation	0.01	0.92	0.07	0.40	0.00	0.99	0.10	0.26	0.06	0.51
Assets	0.21	0.01	0.03	0.76	0.06	0.49	0.000	1.00	0.10	0.25
Maternal education	0.08	0.35	0.01	0.92	0.03	0.75	0.10	0.27	0.08	0.39
Monthly income	0.20	0.02	0.03	0.72	0.03	0.71	0.05	0.60	0.08	0.39
Home environment
Emotional and verbal responsivity	0.05	0.60	0.09	0.28	0.06	0.50	0.05	0.53	0.06	0.49
Organization	0.12	0.17	0.05	0.58	0.09	0.28	0.07	0.42	0.07	0.42
Opportunities	0.04	0.67	0.08	0.38	0.05	0.55	0.07	0.39	− 0.08	0.34
Cleanliness of child	0.15	0.08	0.15	0.09	0.05	0.60	0.16	0.07	− 0.19	0.02

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