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