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

Table 19.

Decomposition of child malnutrition inequality (CI) based on Fixed effect estimator: Ranking variable -Real annual total consumption per adult equivalent

Regressors (k) HAZ WHZ WAZ
βk Elasticity CI Contribution βk Elasticity CI Contribution βk Elasticity CI Contribution
Age .003(.003) .08 .01 .00(−.01) −.014(.003) −.81 −.00 .00(−.15) .005*(.002) .17 .01 .00(−.02)
Age-square −.000*(.000) −.10 .01 −.00(.02) −.000**(.000) .53 −.00 −.00(.08) .000(.000) .00 .01 .00(−.00)
Sex .453***(.115) .14 −.00 −.00(.00) .119(.080) .07 .00 .00(−.01) .332***(.079) .12 .00 3.7(−.00)
Illness incidence .149***(.055) .01 −.00 −.00(.00) .129***(.043) .02 .00 .00(−.00) .163***(.038) .02 −.00 −.01(−.00)
Water availability −.029(.069) −.00 .05 −.00(.00) .052(.048) .01 .04 .00(−.04) .027(.057) .00 .04 .00(−.00)
Toilet type .004(.023) .01 −.00 −.00(.00) .010(.017) .07 −.00 −.00(.01) .036**(.016) .16 −.00 −.00(.00)
Health post −.163* (.090) −.10 .01 −.00(.01) .009(.080) .01 .01 .00(−.00) −.079(.075) −.06 .01 −.00(.00)
Mother educ −.015(.056) −.00 .26 −.00(.02) −.032(.034) −.02 .26 −.00(.24) −.000(.039) −.00 .26 −5.2(.00)
Household size −.047* (.028) −.18 −.03 .01(−.12) 0.031(.024) .23 −.03 −.01(.47) .007(.019) .03 −.03 −.00(.02)
Household sizeU5 −.028 (.040) .01 −.01 .00(−.00) −.020(0.34) −.03 −.01 .00(−.01) −.088***(.026) −.09 −.01 .00(−.02)
Consumption −.103**(.044) −.02(.39) .004(.029) 00(−.15) −.028(.031) −.01(.11)
Quntile 1 .02 −.80 −.01(.30) −.01 −.80 .01(−.31) .01 −.80 −.00(.10)
Quntile 2 .01 −.40 −.00(.09) −.00 −.40 .00(−.06) −.00 −.40 .00(−.01)
Quntile 3 .01 .00 .00(−.00) .02 .01 .00(−.01) .01 .01 .00(−.00)
Quntile 4 .00 .40 .00(−.01) −.01 .41 −.008(.23) −.00 .41 −.00(.02)
Residual −.033(.69) −.01(.56) −.040(.89)
Observation 8505 7973 9229
R2 0.018 0.027 0.037

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