Table 7.

Marginal effects of household characteristics associated with an obese/overweight child (under 5)

Dependent variable: Household with at least one obese/overweight child (under 5)	Obese child		Overweight childa
	All regions	Momase region	All regions	Momase region
Share of consumption of sugar-sweetened food in total food (%)	0.228	0.294	0.101	0.935
	(0.497)	(0.495)	(0.648)	(0.754)
Share of consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in total food (%)	0.173	0.684	0.508**	1.091**
	(0.203)	(0.424)	(0.222)	(0.507)
Share of consumption of high-saturated fat food in total food (%)	0.063	−0.404	0.074	− 0.011
	(0.170)	(0.312)	(0.242)	(0.324)
Total HH expenditure, thousands (PGK/capita/year)	−0.002	0.002	−0.010	− 0.003
	(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.008)	(0.007)
Household in metro area (0/1)	0.031	0.019	0.025	0.015
	(0.035)	(0.034)	(0.038)	(0.049)
Household in urban area (0/1)	−0.030	− 0.031	− 0.038	− 0.074
	(0.020)	(0.045)	(0.026)	(0.060)
Number of children (0–15)	0.001	0.006	0.010	0.028***
	(0.007)	(0.008)	(0.009)	(0.010)
Household size	0.006	0.006	0.012**	0.004
	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.008)
Female Household head (0/1)	−0.017	− 0.003	0.034	−0.084
	(0.028)	(0.046)	(0.053)	(0.070)
Age of Household head	−0.001	− 0.001	− 0.002*	−0.000
	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Household head completed primary education (0/1)	0.007	−0.021	0.027	−0.018
	(0.019)	(0.030)	(0.022)	(0.047)
Highland region (base = Southern)	0.089***		0.198***
	(0.031)		(0.038)
Momase region (base = Southern)	−0.004		−0.014
	(0.024)		(0.028)
Island region (base = Southern)	0.016		−0.015
	(0.034)		(0.047)
Pseudo R2	0.045	0.082	0.086	0.089
N Observations	1721	544	1721	544

^aOverweight sample includes obese

Note: Average marginal effect is reported. Robust standard errors clustered by census unit in parentheses. *** p < 0.01. ** p < 0.05. * p < 0.1