Table 2.
Multivariate analyses of child health status using pooled CHNS data 1989–2006.
| OLS regression
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Logistic regression
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height-for-age Z score | Weight-for-age Z score | Stunted | Underweight | |
| Coef. | Coef. | Odds ratio | Odds ratio | |
| Urban | 0.29*** (0.04) | 0.19*** (0.03) | 0.62*** (0.06) | 0.62** (0.12) |
| Health insurance | 0.20*** (0.03) | 0.07** (0.03) | 0.69*** (0.06) | 0.81 (0.15) |
| Child age: 6–11 | 0.18*** (0.05) | −0.10*** (0.04) | 0.72*** (0.06) | 0.42*** (0.08) |
| Child age: 12–17 | 0.19*** (0.05) | −0.25*** (0.05) | 0.65*** (0.07) | 0.65** (0.13) |
| Girl | 0.04 (0.03) | 0.03 (0.02) | 0.91 (0.06) | 1.17 (0.14) |
| Han | 0.00 (0.05) | −0.01 (0.04) | 0.89 (0.09) | 0.76 (0.14) |
| Student | 0.05* (0.03) | −0.05* (0.03) | 0.88* (0.06) | 0.69** (0.11) |
| Log(HH income per capita) | 0.07*** (0.01) | 0.03* (0.01) | 0.92*** (0.03) | 0.98 (0.08) |
| Household head is male | −0.17*** (0.06) | −0.13** (0.06) | 1.41* (0.25) | 0.90 (0.30) |
| Household size | −0.02 (0.01) | −0.01 (0.01) | 1.00 (0.02) | 1.06 (0.04) |
| Mother’s age | 0.01* (0.01) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.97*** (0.01) | 0.94*** (0.02) |
| Mother’s height | 0.04*** (0.00) | 0.02*** (0.00) | 0.94*** (0.01) | 0.94*** (0.01) |
| Mother’s BMI | 0.03*** (0.00) | 0.04*** (0.01) | 0.93*** (0.01) | 0.89*** (0.03) |
| Mother_edu: primary school | 0.02 (0.04) | −0.05 (0.04) | 0.95 (0.09) | 0.80 (0.15) |
| Mother_edu: middle school | 0.05 (0.05) | −0.00 (0.04) | 0.86 (0.09) | 0.90 (0.18) |
| Mother_edu: high school | 0.14** (0.06) | 0.07 (0.05) | 0.73** (0.11) | 1.14 (0.31) |
| Mother_edu: college | −0.05 (0.11) | 0.01 (0.12) | 1.32 (0.48) | |
| Mother employed | −0.01 (0.04) | 0.02 (0.04) | 1.02 (0.12) | 1.36 (0.31) |
| Mother smokes | −0.11 (0.09) | −0.07 (0.07) | 0.96 (0.22) | 1.25 (0.64) |
| Mother drinks | 0.02 (0.04) | 0.04 (0.03) | 0.87 (0.09) | 0.57** (0.13) |
| Father’s age | 0.01** (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.99 (0.01) | 1.00 (0.02) |
| Father’s height | 0.04*** (0.00) | 0.02*** (0.00) | 0.95*** (0.01) | 0.97** (0.01) |
| Father’s BMI | 0.02*** (0.01) | 0.05*** (0.01) | 0.98 (0.01) | 0.92** (0.04) |
| Father_edu: primary school | 0.13** (0.06) | −0.01 (0.04) | 0.72*** (0.08) | 1.20 (0.29) |
| Father_edu: middle school | 0.18*** (0.06) | −0.02 (0.04) | 0.64*** (0.07) | 1.19 (0.26) |
| Father_edu: high school | 0.18*** (0.06) | 0.01 (0.05) | 0.65*** (0.09) | 0.93 (0.28) |
| Father_edu: college | 0.48*** (0.10) | 0.27** (0.11) | 0.24*** (0.10) | 1.21 (0.94) |
| Father employed | −0.05 (0.07) | −0.12** (0.06) | 0.85 (0.12) | 0.83 (0.27) |
| Father smokes | 0.05* (0.03) | 0.07*** (0.03) | 0.89 (0.06) | 0.82 (0.12) |
| Father drinks | −0.03 (0.03) | −0.03 (0.02) | 1.07 (0.07) | 1.04 (0.16) |
| Waves 1997–2000 | 0.20*** (0.03) | 0.15*** (0.02) | 0.74*** (0.05) | 0.61*** (0.09) |
| Waves 2004–2006 | 0.30*** (0.04) | 0.40*** (0.04) | 0.73*** (0.07) | 0.91 (0.16) |
| Observations | 13,011 | 13,011 | 13,011 | 12,790 |
| (Pseudo) R2 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.14 | 0.16 |
Source: Authors’ calculations from the China and Health Nutrition Survey data 1989–2006.
Notes: (i) Cluster-robust standard errors are reported in parenthesis. (ii) Other covariates include indicators of provinces, indicators for whether mother or father is missing in the health survey, and a constant (for continuous dependent variables), which are not reported here.
*
p < 0.10.
**
p < 0.05.
***
p < 0.01.