Table 5. Contribution of differences in the effect of the determinants of childhood undernutrition to the total gap between poor and non-poor in urban India, 2005–06.

	Weight-for-age		Height-for-age		Weight-for-height
Variables	Z score gap	% Contribution	Z score gap	% Contribution	Z score gap	% Contribution
Child is female	NA	NA	NA	NA	−0.015	−18.5
Age of child	0.037	17.1	0.018	9.7	−0.030	−37.0
Birth order	−0.030	−13.9	0.027	14.5	−0.026	−32.1
Size of child at birth (average and above)	0.013	6.0	−0.029	−15.6	−0.001	−1.2
Mother's age at birth	0.074	34.3	−0.047	−25.3	0.026	32.1
Mother education (primary and above)	−0.031	−14.4	0.042	22.6	0.017	21.0
Father education (primary and above)	−0.035	−16.2	0.024	12.9	0.033	40.7
Exposure to media	0.060	27.8	0.032	17.2	0.027	33.3
Working status of mother	−0.028	−13.0	−0.040	−21.5	−0.019	−23.5
BMI of mothers	0.009	4.2	−0.009	−4.8	−0.019	−23.5
Mother is anaemic	0.073	33.8	0.005	2.7	0.029	35.8
Religion	0.003	1.4	0.011	5.9	0.006	7.4
Caste	−0.001	−0.5	0.021	11.3	−0.008	−9.9
Full immunization	−0.015	−6.9	−0.026	−14.0	0.023	28.4
Antenatal care checkups	−0.002	−0.9	0.024	12.9	−0.011	−13.6
Institutional delivery	0.012	5.6	0.047	25.3	0.032	39.5
Region	−0.041	−19.0	−0.013	−7.0	0.027	33.3
Constant	0.118	54.6	0.099	53.2	−0.010	−12.3
Total	0.216	100.0	0.186	100.0	0.081	100.0

NA: Not applicable in the analysis as not found significant in chi-squared test.