Table 1. Fit of models predicting anthropometric values from absolute wealth estimates or wealth indexes.
| Variable | n | Proportional reduction of residual errora |
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| Absolute wealth estimate |
Wealth index |
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| Between-country | Within-country | Total sample | Between-country | Within-country | Total sample | |||
| Women’s body mass index | 1 109 850 | 0.42 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.02 | |
| Height | ||||||||
| Girls | 239 029 | 0.12 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | |
| Boys | 252 416 | 0.10 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | |
| Weight-for-height, Z-score | ||||||||
| Girls | 306 032 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Boys | 321 390 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
a Proportional reduction of residual error in model excluding variable, compared with that in model including the variable. Models used data from 1 403 186 households collected between 1994 and 2011, during 156 demographic and health surveys in 66 countries.