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. 2021 Aug 14;20:182. doi: 10.1186/s12939-021-01478-3

Table 16.

Summary of decomposition results: Decomposition results of the poor-non-poor gap in malnutrition with different weighting schemes

D 0 1 0.5 .276 *
HAZ
 Unexplained 0.040 0.188 0.114 0.081 0.066
 Explained 0.265 0.117 0.191 0.224 0.239
 % unexplained 13.2 61.6 37.4 26.6 21.7
 % explained 86.8 38.4 62.6 73.4 78.3
WHZ
 Unexplained: 0.061 0.025 0.043 0.051 0.027
 Explained 0.039 0.075 0.057 0.049 0.074
 % unexplained 61.0 25.1 43.1 51.1 26.7
 % explained 39.0 74.9 56.9 48.9 73.3
WAZ
 Unexplained −0.065 0.098 0.016 −0.020 0.026
 Explained 0.314 0.152 0.233 0.269 0.223
 % unexplained −26.0 39.2 6.6 −8.0 10.3
 % explained 126.0 60.8 93.4 108.0 89.7

D in 4th column = relative frequency of high group, * reference: pooled model over both categories