Table 3. Determinants of U5 malnutrition (measured anthropometrically through ‘height-for-age’[HAZ] scores) for the poor and the Nonpoor, study country–Armenia.

Variables	2000	2005	2010	2015
	(β)	(β)	(β)	(β)
Poor [poor = 1; Nonpoor = 0]	6.460	-27.839	13.676	31.296
LogAge	-24.619***	-0.376	-11.615	-3.081
Poor*LogAge	0.054	0.017	0.053	-0.146
Gender [male = 1]	21.563*	-2.093	8.780	16.113
Poor*Gender	-0.0826	-0.006	0.191	0.064
Birthweight	0.058***	0.063***	-	0.055***
Poor*Birthweight	-0.000	-0.000	-	-0.000
Duration of breast fed	0.302	0.126	-	0.324
Poor*Duration of breast fed	-0.001	-0.0103*	-	0.006**
Suffering from diarrhoea	6.378	6.925	-	15.455
Poor*Suffering from diarrhoea	0.048	0.148	-	-0.251
Mother’s age at 1st child birth	0.769	-0.558	0.506	1.005
Poor*Mother’s age at 1st child birth	-0.007	-0.022	0.045*	0.048***
Mother’s highest education [comparison: primary education]	2.992	24.831	13.000	13.371
Poor*Mother’s highest education	0.015	0.322	-0.151	0.021
Rohrer’s index	0.023	-0.015	-	-0.010
Poor* Rohrer’s index	0.001**	-0.000	-	-0.000
Household size	-0.123	3.537	0.966	-2.447
Poor*Householdsize	0.0227	-0.051	-0.089*	-0.025
Number of children in the household	-11.93	-0.017	-5.480	7.339
Poor*number of children in the household	0.0336	-0.032	0.153*	0.077
Violence in the household [1 = yes]	-3.652	-20.595	-2.168	39.903*
Poor*violence in the household	-0.163	-0.058	0.094	0.371*
Region of residence [comparison: Aragatsotn]	0.716	4.777**	2.686	-5.961***
Poor*region of residence	-0.0342	0.040	-0.042	-0.143***
Settlement of residence [urban = 1]	-5.270	-17.155	-4.099	9.522
Poor*settlement of residence	-0.390*	0.379**	-0.340*	0.259
Constant	9.616***	9.946***	10.012***	9.916***
LR test- χ2	0.022	0.009	0.006	0.000
N	1367	1135	1232	1711

*:p<0.05

**:p<0.01

***:p<0.001

‘-‘: data not available.

‘*’: interaction.