This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/mcn.12852 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Kuche Desalegn (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-7118-8352) Factors associated with dietary diversity and length-for-age z-score in rural Ethiopian children aged 6-23 months: a novel approach to the analysis of baseline data from the Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia evaluation Desalegn Kuche * , Cami Moss † , Solomon Eshetu * , Girmay Ayana * , Mihretab Salasibew † , Alan D. Dangour † , Elizabeth Allen † * Food Science and Nutrition Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. † London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the Tigray, Amhara, Oromiya and SNNP regional, zonal, district health bureaus and offices for facilitating household data collection. We thank the supervisors, enumerators and EPHI staff who collected data, and we also extend our gratitude to Mrs. Alemnesh Petros for supporting data cleaning and Mrs. Beza Teshome for managing and cleaning data. Finally, but most importantly, we would like to thank all the mothers and children who participated in the study. Source of funding This study was supported by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (grant: G-1610- 01691). The funders did not participate in the study design, data collection or analysis, review of the manuscript or decision to publish.