Table 4.
Effect estimates on WAZ. Ecuador, 2005–2009
| Variables | Model 1⁎ |
Model 2⁎ |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates | SE | Estimates | SE | |
| Socioeconomics | ||||
| Age | −0.04⁎⁎ | 0.00 | −0.04⁎⁎ | 0.00 |
| Age2 | 0.00⁎⁎ | 0.00 | 0.00⁎⁎ | 0.00 |
| Sex (male) | −0.01 | 0.04 | −0.01 | 0.04 |
| Residence (Rural) | −0.03 | 0.04 | ||
| Mother marital status (Single) | 0.06 | 0.07 | ||
| Ethnicity (Mestizo/Native) | 0.17⁎⁎ | 0.04 | 0.17⁎⁎ | 0.04 |
| No. of persons in house (≤4) | −0.08 | 0.05 | ||
| No. of children (≤2) | −0.05 | 0.04 | ||
| Monthly income (US$) | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Random effects | ||||
| Intercept | 0.53⁎⁎ | 0.03 | 0.53⁎⁎ | 0.03 |
| Age | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cov (Age, intercept) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Residual | 0.35⁎⁎ | 0.01 | 0.35⁎⁎ | 0.01 |
⁎
Multilevel age quadratic models.
⁎⁎
P < .05.