Fig 1.
Flow chart depicting the selection of study participants for a study of the association between food insecurity and early children development (ECD) among children 24–59 months in Nigeria, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS6), 2021.
Table 1.
Domains, items and scoring of the ECDI2030 used in MICS6, Nigeria, 2021.
Table 2.
Description Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) used in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), 2021.
Table 3.
Characteristics among children aged 24–59 months old by early childhood development status, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2021 (N = 11494).
Fig 2.
Single items of the FIES among children 24–59 months who were developmentally on track and not on track.
Fig 3.
Weighted prevalence of early childhood development status according to household food insecurity status among children 24–59 months in Nigeria.
Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.
Table 4.
Results from the two-level logistic regression models investigating the association between household food insecurity and development in early childhood, adjusting for child, maternal/family and contextual level factors among children 24–59 months in Nigeria, N = 11494.
Table 5.
Results from the random intercept model (measure of variation) for early childhood development at cluster level by multilevel logistic regression analysis.