Predicted prevalence of malnutrition by wealth, education and ethnicity across rural and urban populations. Predictions based on a model that included wealth, education, ethnicity and an interaction term between each of these and urban/rural areas (one model per interaction term). *P < 0·05 v. reference category (low wealth, low mother’s education or indigenous). Results are only presented for models in which the interaction term had a P < 0·10. Data are from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 (n 33 244). (a, b, f) , low wealth; , medium wealth; , high wealth; (c, e) , low mother’s education; , medium mother’s education; , high mother’s education; (d) , indigenous; , non-indigenous