Table 6:
Duration at residence: OLS regression results for the association between number of years spent at post-migration residence and child health, 2013 MHM
| Model 1- Child health | Model 2- Children characteristics | Model 3- Children, mothers, households | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coef. | 95% CI | Coef. | 95% CI | Coef. | 95% CI | |
| Children’s characteristics | ||||||
| Years at post-migration residence | ||||||
| Non-migrant (reference) | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 0-1 years | −0.27 | −0.542- −0.008 | −0.28 | −0.539-−0.017 | −0.16 | −0.376-0.047 |
| 1-2 years | −0.19 | −0.553-0.180 | −0.16 | −0.523-0.199 | −0.13 | −0.525-0.266 |
| 2-3 years | −0.09 | −0.331-0.149 | −0.09 | −0.327-0.149 | −0.16 | −0.348-0.019 |
| 3-5 years | −0.32 | −0.587- −0.056 | −0.33 | −0.590-−0.067 | −0.09 | −0.399-0.212 |
| 5-9 years | −0.28 | −0.448- −0.104 | −0.28 | −0.451-−0.104 | −0.15 | −0.285-−0.014 |
| Age | 0.00 | −0.015-0.009 | −0.01 | −0.017-0.004 | ||
| Level of education | ||||||
| None (reference) | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ||
| Primary | 0.14 | −0.004-0.280 | 0.14 | 0.011-0.266 | ||
| Secondary | 0.22 | −0.052-0.492 | 0.28 | 0.033-0.526 | ||
| Male | 0.06 | −0.026-0.139 | 0.06 | −0.007-0.131 | ||
| Slept in household last night | 0.00 | −0.129-0.127 | −0.01 | −0.120-0.096 | ||
| Mother characteristics | ||||||
| Mother’s health | 0.43 | 0.334-0.517 | ||||
| Number of children | 0.00 | −0.026-0.031 | ||||
| Mother’s age | 0.00 | −0.004-0.010 | ||||
| Mother’s marital status | ||||||
| Currently married (reference) | ---- | ---- | ||||
| Divorced/separated | 0.09 | −0.157-0.337 | ||||
| Widowed | 0.18 | −0.123-0.477 | ||||
| Mother’s education | ||||||
| None (reference) | ---- | ---- | ||||
| Primary | 0.08 | −0.045-0.205 | ||||
| Secondary or higher | 0.31 | 0.062-0.565 | ||||
| HIV infected | −0.03 | −0.180-0.127 | ||||
| Household characteristics | ||||||
| Region of residence | ||||||
| Central (reference) | ---- | ---- | ||||
| South | 0.08 | −0.037-0.195 | ||||
| North | 0.11 | −0.029-0.258 | ||||
| Household wealth | −0.02 | −0.060-0.015 | ||||
| Husband resides in household | 0.08 | −0.112-0.264 | ||||
| N= | 786 children, 273 mothers/households | |||||
Notes: standard errors are clustered by mother/household; instances where 95% CIs do not overlap with 1 are in bold font. Other measures such as the number of people who provide assistance (financial and non-financial) to the mother, and number of lifetime marriages were not associated with the outcome and were dropped from the final analyses. Additional analysis with migrants of duration 0-1 years as the reference group did not change the substantive conclusions.