Table 2.
Time trends analyses of low birth weight and childhood undernutrition between 1985 and 2019 in West Africa
| Outcomes | Sensitivity analysis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed effect model with cluster robust standard error | Random effect model with cluster robust standard error | Mixed effect model with cluster robust standard error | Generalised estimating equation with Gaussian link and exchangeable correlation structure with robust standard error (population average models) | |||||
| β | 95 % CI | β | 95 % CI | β | 95 % CI | β | 95 % CI | |
| Stunting | –0·20 | –0·43, 0·03 | –0·19 | –0·40, 0·01 | –0·19 | –0·40, 0·01 | –0·20 | –0·40, 0·01 |
| Log-wasting | –0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 | –0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 | –0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 | –0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 |
| Log-underweight | –0·02 | –0·03, –0·01 | –0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 | 0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 | –0·02 | –0·02, –0·01 |
| Low birth weight | 0·06 | –0·10, 0·22 | 0·06 | –0·08, 0·21 | 0·06 | –0·08, 0·21 | 0·08 | –0·09, 0·25 |
| Anaemia | –0·44 | –0·55, –0·34 | –0·44 | –0·54, –0·35 | –0·44 | –0·54, –0·35 | –0·44 | –0·54, –0·35 |
, average annual percentage change.