Table 4.

Relative importance of the factors stunting among children aged 0–59 months in Malawi by dominance analysis (N = 7348).

Variables	Child stunting
	Dominance statistic	Standardized weight††	Rank
Maternal autonomy index	0.0012	0.03	9
Child’s age (months)	0.0093	0.22	1
Sex	0.0036	0.09	5
Mother’s age (years)	0.0003	0.01	11
Mother’s BMI	0.0060	0.14	4
Mother’s education level	0.0063	0.15	3
Breastfeeding duration	0.0021	0.05	7
Current pregnancy status	0.0016	0.04	8
Family wealth index	0.0075	0.18	2
Type of area of residence	0.0027	0.06	6
IFA supplementation	0.0003	0.01	12
Received anthelmintic drugs during previous pregnancy	0.0010	0.02	10
Overall Fit Statistic	0.0420

^††Standardized weight is the general dominance weight from McFadden R² normed or standardized to be out of 100%. BMI, body mass index; IFA, iron and folic acid. Variables included in this dominance analysis are those fitted into the final model of the regression analysis.