Table 5.

Impact pathways of supermarket purchase on child/adolescent HAZ, Central Province of Kenya, July and August 2012

Pathway	ME	se
Effect on HAZ from
Joule consumption per day (kJ/d)	0·00001*	0·00
Share of joules from processed foods (%)	0·025*	0·01
Effect of supermarket purchase share (%) on joule consumption per day (kJ/d)	72·133	55·42
Effect of supermarket purchase share (%) on share of joules from processed food (%)	0·447**	0·18
Number of observations	216
χ 2 test statistic	65·561***

HAZ, height-for-age Z-score; ME, marginal effect.

Estimates are based on causal chain model, full results of which are presented in the online supplementary material (Table 7S).

*P<0·1, **P<0·05, ***P<0·01.