Considering the educational and literacy characteristics
of mothers, even if a statistically significant difference was
observed during the bivariate logistic regression analyses,
none of these appeared in the final multivariate regression
model. Yet, descriptive analysis shows that women with no
formal education and those trained to tertiary level had a
higher, 25% and 33.3%, prevalence of anemia during pregnancy,
respectively. Literacy level showed a nonsignificant
but a linear declining trend of anemia prevalence; that is,
the higher the woman is literate, the lower is the risk of
developing anemia during pregnancy (