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. 2021 May 15;18(10):5277. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18105277

Table 1.

Household and infant characteristics.

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
All Shaanxi 2014 Yunnan 2015 Hebei 2015 Shaanxi 2016 Beijing 2017 Henan 2017 Shaanxi 2017 Yunnan 2019
(N = 4436) (N = 525) (N = 210) (N = 230) (N = 1832) (N = 81) (N = 271) (N = 273) (N = 1014)
Panel A: household characteristics
The primary caregiver is mother (1 = yes) 3179 350 164 185 1286 60 170 167 797
0.72 0.67 0.78 0.80 0.70 0.74 0.63 0.61 0.79
Mother’s age (years) 27.5 26.42 26.81 29.15 27.98 28.52 27.62 28.61 26.55
5.06 4.55 5.43 4.81 5.01 3.96 4.13 4.2 5.59
Mother’s years of schooling (years) 9.09 8.51 8.50 9.97 9.22 13.1 12.7 12.6 6.87
3.56 2.53 3.10 2.94 2.64 2.51 3.08 2.85 4.14
Household has higher socioeconomic status (1 = yes) 2139 120 17 174 930 74 260 160 404
0.48 0.23 0.081 0.76 0.51 0.91 0.96 0.59 0.40
Household receives rural subsistence allowance (dibao) (1 = yes) 831 145 31 24 202 6 19 33 371
0.19 0.28 0.15 0.10 0.11 0.07 0.07 0.12 0.37
Panel B: infant characteristics
Infant age (months) 16.3 24.5 11.7 13.1 14.5 18.2 20.3 18.8 15.3
6.79 3.20 3.62 3.14 5.47 9.21 9.52 8.75 5.59
Male infant (1 = yes) 2284 251 111 125 944 44 152 133 524
0.51 0.48 0.53 0.54 0.52 0.54 0.56 0.49 0.52
Infant is premature (1 = yes) 249 56 9 10 85 4 17 20 48
0.06 0.11 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.05

Notes: Data are frequency and percent for binary variables (1 = yes; 0 = no), and mean and standard deviation for numeric variables (years or months).