Table 1.

Sample means by population and age.

	all ages		0–5 months		6–24 months		25–59 months
	India	SSA	India	SSA	India	SSA	India	SSA
Dependentvariable:
height-for-age z-score	−1.824	−1.541	−0.542	−0.310	−1.736	−1.467	−2.063	−1.839
Independentvariables:
open defecation (own)	0.581	0.311	0.554	0.319	0.570	0.305	0.590	0.313
open defecation (PSU)	0.630	0.317	0.660	0.327	0.633	0.313	0.625	0.318
ln(OD density)	4.943	1.893	5.092	1.904	4.947	1.880	4.918	1.899
population density ($\frac{\text{pop}}{{\text{km}}^2}$)	598.7	74.0	604.7	72.8	592.8	73.2	600.9	74.6
Demographics:
age in months	29.85	27.87	2.90	2.76	14.80	14.57	41.93	41.41
sibsize at survey	2.93	3.68	2.62	3.40	2.60	3.41	3.15	3.90
birth order	2.75	3.75	2.73	3.73	2.65	3.72	2.80	3.78
boy	0.523	0.502	0.492	0.504	0.524	0.500	0.528	0.502
first-born boy	0.152	0.101	0.148	0.105	0.163	0.103	0.147	0.100
last-born at survey	0.690	0.609	0.942	0.846	0.909	0.825	0.536	0.423
Socio-economic status:
assets (of 5)	1.907	1.513	1.710	1.460	1.921	1.498	1.929	1.533
urban	0.247	0.253	0.222	0.245	0.245	0.252	0.252	0.255
mother literate	0.507	0.600	0.507	0.596	0.530	0.614	0.496	0.592
father no education	0.281	0.321	0.273	0.330	0.265	0.309	0.291	0.326

Note: Unlike other results in this paper intended to document relationships, here sampling weights are used.