Table 18.
Decomposition of child malnutrition inequality (CI) based on Fixed effect estimator: Ranking variable Wealth index
| Regressors (k) | HAZ | WHZ | WAZ | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β k | Elasticity | CI | Contribution | β k | Elasticity | CI | Contribution | β k | Elasticity | CI | Contribution | |
| Age | .006* (.003) | .17 | −.02 | −.01(.11) | −.015***(.003) | −.85 | −.03 | . 03(−.76) | .006*(.003) | .21 | −.03 | −.01(.11) |
| Age-square | −.000**(.000) | −.11 | −.05 | .01(−.12) | −.000*(.000) | .51 | −.05 | −.03(.83) | .000(.000) | .01 | −.05 | −.00(.01) |
| Sex | .433***(.114) | .13 | .02 | .00(−.06) | .131*(.076) | .08 | .02 | .00(−.05) | .327***(.081) | .12 | .02 | .00(−.04) |
| Illness incidence | .142**(.055) | .01 | .05 | .00(−.02) | .122***(.043) | .02 | .06 | .00(−.04) | .160***(.038) | .02 | .05 | .00(−.02) |
| Water availability | −.019(.067) | −.00 | .19 | −.00(.01) | .055(.049) | .02 | .19 | .00(−.09) | .025(.054) | .00 | .19 | .00(−.01) |
| Toilet type | .012(.023) | .05 | −.02 | −.00(.02) | .004(.018) | .03 | −.02 | −.00(.02) | .037**(.015) | .16 | −.02 | −.00(.07) |
| Health post | −.144* (.084) | −.09 | .00 | .00(−.00) | .006 (.076) | .01 | .00 | 2.5(−.00) | −.059(.070) | −.05 | −.00 | .00(−.00) |
| Mother educ | −.033(.058) | −.01 | .32 | −.00(.06) | −.033(.034) | −.02 | .31 | −.01(.16) | .004(.040) | .00 | .32 | .00(−.01) |
| Household size | −.042(.027) | −.16 | .01 | −.00(.03) | .031(.023) | .23 | .01 | .00(−.04) | .001(.018) | .01 | .01 | .00(−.00) |
| Household sizeU5 | −.037(.038) | −.03 | −.01 | .00(−.01) | −.023(.032) | −.04 | −.00 | .00(−.00) | −.096***(.026) | −.10 | −.00 | .00(−.00) |
| Wealth index | 0.114***(.033) | .05(−1.12) | −.028(.022) | −.02(.75) | .062***(.021) | 03(−.58) | ||||||
| Quntile 1 | −.04 | −.78 | .04(−.80) | .02 | −.80 | −.01(.53) | −.03 | −.80 | .02(−.43) | |||
| Quntile 2 | −.04 | −.40 | .02(−.38) | .01 | −.40 | −.00(.07) | .03 | −.40 | .01(−.23) | |||
| Quntile 3 | −.02 | .02 | −.00(.01) | .01 | .01 | .00(−.00) | −.02 | .01 | −.00(.00) | |||
| Quntile 4 | −01 | .41 | −.00(.06) | −.01 | .41 | −.00(.15) | −.01 | .42 | −.00(.08) | |||
| Residual | −.094(2.07) | −.007(.22) | 08(1.7) | |||||||||
| Observation | 8686 | 8132 | 9426 | |||||||||
| R2 | 0.025 | 0.025 | 0.040 | |||||||||
Under each malnutrition indicators, in the contribution column, the figure in parenthesis represents the percentage contribution. Each figure is rounded to two digits only. Hence, point zero zero doesn’t mean that it is actually zero, it is rather rounded value