Table 3.

Malnutrition concentration indices by province

Province	Rate (%)	C	SE (C)	p-value	95% confidence interval
	Lower	Higher
STUNTING
Eastern Cape	31.5	-0.123	0.0318	0.000	-0.186	-0.061
Free State	25.2	-0.239	0.069	0.000	-0.415	-0.144
Gauteng	18.2	-0.270	0.0522	0.000	-0.371	-0.168
Kwazulu-Natal	24.6	-0.108	0.0357	0.003	-0.178	-0.038
Mpumalanga	19.5	-0.229	0.065	0.000	-0.357	-0.102
North West	23.4	-0.260	0.063	0.000	-0.384	-0.136
Northern Province	27.2	-0.255	0.037	0.000	-0.327	-0.182
Western Cape	16.5	-0.273	0.085	0.002	-0.440	-0.105
UNDERWEIGHT
Eastern Cape	9.4	-0.199	0.0671	0.003	-0.331	-0.067
Free State	19.9	-0.146	0.083	0.078	-0.309	-0.016
Gauteng	15.4	-0.201	0.0585	0.001	-0.316	-0.086
Kwazulu-Natal	15.9	-0.054	0.0471	0.249	-0.147	0.038
Mpumalanga	15.2	-0.099	0.0764	0.194	-0.250	0.051
North West	27.5	-0.277	0.0557	0.000	-0.386	-0.167
Northern Province	25.8	-0.175	0.0393	0.000	-0.252	-0.098
Western Cape	10.9	-0.274	0.1093	0.013	-0.489	-0.058
WASTING
Eastern Cape	3.1	-0.093	0.1229	0.450	-0.3343	0.1484
Free State	11.5	-0.124	0.115	0.281	-0.350	0.102
Gauteng	10.8	-0.094	0.072	0.193	-0.237	0.048
Kwazulu-Natal	8.7	-0.067	0.0664	0.313	-0.063	0.198
Mpumalanga	6.7	-0.226	0.174	0.194	-0.567	0.116
Northern Province	13.1	-0.122	0.060	0.000	-0.240	-0.004
North West	14.7	-0.160	0.086	0.064	-0.329	0.009
Western Cape	4.8	0.123	0.1724	0.476	-0.217	0.0463